Ovid, Metamorphoses
film: Pygmalion – Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Her (2013), My Fair Lady (1964), Project Nim (2011), She’s All That (1999), Pretty Woman (1990), The Shape of Things (2003), Ruby Sparks (2012), The Makeover (2013), Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Mannequin (1987), Educating Ruby (1983)
Orpheus – Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy (The Blood of a Poet 1930, Orpheus 1950, Testament of Orpheus 1960), Black Orpheus (1959), Takashi Masunaga's Metamorphoses/Hoshi No Orufeusu (1978), Moulin Rouge (2001)
literature & theater: Orpheus – Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1922), Philip K. Dick's "Orpheus with Clay Feet" (1964), A.E. Stallings's "Eurydice's Footnote (1995), Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid (1999), Elizabeth Bevarly's My Fair Billionaire (2014), Jean Anouilh's Eurydice (1941), Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending (1957), Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice (2003), Terrance Hayes's "Cocktails with Orpheus" (2008), Carol Ann Duffy's "Eurydice" (1999)
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913)
Venus and Adonis – Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis (1592-3)
music, opera, dance: Orpheus – Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown (2010), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "The Lyre of Orpheus" (2004), Todd Rungren's "Blue Orpheus" (1985), Pina Bausch's Overture to Orpheus and Eurydice (1975), Willibald von Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), Philip Glass, Orphée (1993), The Herd's (featuring Peter Frampton) "From the Underworld" (1967)
television: Pygmalion – Selfie (2014), La Femme Nikita (1997-2001)
visual arts: Google for images of Actaeon, Arachne & Minerva, Apollo & Dasphne, Arethusa, Echo & Narcissus, Perseus & Andromeda, Pygmalion, Ganymede & the Eagle, Jupiter & Europa, Io & Jupiter, Callisto & Jupiter, Hermaphroditus & Salmacis, Ceres, Dis & Proserpina, Semele, Tereus, Procne & Philomela, Scylla, Hyacinth, Adonis, Glaucus & Scylla, Byblis & Caunus, Myrrha, Hippolytus, Tiresias, Iphis & Ianthe, Orpheus & Eurydice, Caenis
Statius, Thebaid, Achilleid
film: choose a film with a cross-dressing plot that can be insightfully compared with Achilleid
visual arts: Google Oedipus, Amphiaraus, Eriphyle, Polynices, Eteocles, Antigone, Seven Against Thebes, Achilles, Thetis, Deidamia, Chiron
Lucan, Civil War
film: choose a film in which violence is aestheticized and/or thematically central (e.g. a Quentin Tarantino film) in the style of Lucan
television: Rome (2005-7)
visual arts: Google Caesar, Pompey, Cato the Younger, Julia, Cornelia, Erichtho, Sextus
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
literature: Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2012), Cardinal Melchior de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius, or, On God and Nature (1747), Tennyson's "Lucretius" (1868)
visual arts: Google Venus, Iphianassa
science: compare one of Lucretius's theories with a modern counterpart