izzy levy 🐻✨

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they/them | independent classics educator & researcher, digital learning designer @ uwe bristol, performer | ruminating on ovid's callisto, helen's eidolon, drag, and queer reception

A presentation slide that reads, "'When Bear Left Bear': Queer Ursine Assemblages in Ovid's Metamorphoses 2 and Joanna Newsom's 'Monkey and Bear.' Izzy Levy, Independent researcher." To the left is an image of an ancient vase painting showing a woman being metamorphosed into a bear.

text reading: Note: in the plural the masculine is used for common gender, as in οἱ σοφοί, the wise. This is called the generic masculine. In tragedy even a woman speaking of herself in the plural will use the masculine.

the penguin classics edition of ovid's metamorphoses

a still from a wounded fawn (2022) showing one of the furies, tisiphone, who appears as a woman wearing a greek tragic style mask with snakes slithering over her head and body.