# Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Marchella Ward. Many thanks to Danny Pucknell, Emma Bridges and James Robson for their support and extremely helpful feedback on the content.

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Figure 1: from Fandom and licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Figure 2: akg-images / Erich Lessing

Figure 3: Photograph by Haukur Þorgeirsson from Fredrik Sander’s 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda.

Figure 4: A map that Al-Idrisi made for Roger II of Sicily in 1154 AD, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al-Idrisi%27s_world_map.JPG

Figure 5: Kahuroa

Figure 6: The Creation, The Battle of the Giants, Decaulion and Pyrrha and Apollo and the serpent.; PHAS / Contributor; Universal Images Group; Getty Images

Figure 7: © The Trustees of the British Museum; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Figure 8: Goran tek-en; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Figure 9: Joel ARPAILLANGE; Getty Images

Figure 10: from The Monumental Statue of Ovid / The History of Romania in One Object, Romanian Cultural Institute in New York

Figure 11: Wally Reinhardt ‘Joves Makes Hercules a God’, 2013, Watercolor, gouache, Prismacolor colored pencil, graphite, and tape on prepared Arches paper, 18 x 33 in. New York University Art Collection. Gift of the artist, 2018.2.62

Figure 12: Ana Maria Pacheco, Tales of Transformations II, 1997-8, ©Ana Maria Pacheco. All Rights Reserved 2024/ Bridgeman Images, Repro courtesy of PRATT CONTEMPORARY, UK

Figure 13, top left: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo; top right; OLIVIER HOSLET/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock; bottom left: City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries; People’s Story, www.capitalcollections.org.uk; bottom right: courtesy of Phil Roeder

Figure 14: sneska; Getty Images

Figure 15: artist Sarah Young, from Greek Myths written by Ann Turnbull courtesy of Walker Books Limited

Figure 16: Zygmunt Waliszewski Diana and Actaeon | 1935 NationalMuseum in Poznan, photograph by Ablakok; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Figure 17: © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

Figure 18: © Chris Ofili, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Figure 19: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson

Figure 20: © courtesy of Dave Morgan

Figure 21: courtesy of Lino Bernabe Fernandez

Figure 22: By Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14783288925/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/storyofgreatestn01elli/storyofgreatestn01elli#page/n586/mode/1up, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42033593

Figure 23: photographer Jastrow (2006); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbos_plate#/media/File:Plate_Euphorbos_BM_GR1860.4-4.1.jpg

Figure 24: from https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/198701; public domain

Figure 25: Alaskanspaceship; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Figure 26: from Ovid and China, A Roman poet, 18th-century punch bowls and a Monmouth College professor; Barry McNamara | Published 2 November 2021

Activity 10: Left: ClemRutter; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en; centre: Getty Museum Collection, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/; right: © The Trustees of the British Museum; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Activity 12: Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David M. Robinson

Activity 15: Diana and Actaeon, after Titian; National Galleries of Scotland; Bequeathed by George Watson through Art Fund, 2015; https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

The Death of Actaeon; National Gallery, London, photographer: Carlo Bollo / Alamy Stock Photo

Text

Activities 1,13 and 17: 1.1–4, McCarter, Stephanie; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Penguin 2022

Activity 3: Marchella Ward, The World that came from a Shell, Gods of the Ancient World, 2022, D K Publishing

Activity 13: Golding, Arthur; Metamorphoses, John Danter, 1567

Audio Visual

What Makes a Monster: courtesy of Anya Leonard, Classical Wisdom

What do we mean by Classical Reception: The Open University

About Face: The National Gallery

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