Episode 4 – Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Deborah Beck

Can we escape our fate? Why do we go back to a story we know well? In this episode of Watch Next, we revisit the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as depicted in Céline Sciama’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Professor of Classics Deborah Beck talks to us about our human failings: doubt, temptation, and how the ancient Greeks told stories to understand ourselves and the world around us. It's an old song, an old tale, that we sing again and again. Works Discussed: Portrait of a lady on fire  (Céline Sciamma, 2019)Ovid’s Metamorphoses.