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Everett Beek’s studies focus on Latin poetry, gender in antiquity, literary depictions of the supernatural, and the technology of glass and mirrors. She has published extensively on transformations, apotheoses, and other supernatural events in the works of Ovid, especially as they relate to gender and social status. Her first book is a translation, text, and commentary of Ovid’s calendar poem, the Fasti, with special attention to Ovid’s concept of the civic calendar in relation to the astronomical year. She also works with supernatural elements (especially afterlife narratives) in the works of Lucian, and her current major project focuses on the extraordinary moon mirror in the True History and its relationship to real-life mirror technology in the ancient Mediterranean. She has studied the reception of classics in renaissance authors such as Dante and Erasmus, and has published her own poems in English. Her teaching experience includes courses in Greek and Latin language and literature, classical mythology, Roman art, and magic in the Greco-Roman world.

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