MURMURE BLANDITIAE: Teaching Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe Through Annotation

This thesis presents a curriculum based on the original Latin of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, specifically the story of Pyramus and Thisbe. It is designed for high school students in advanced Latin courses ready to take on the challenge of reading poetry. It includes footnotes of the Latin text, literal translations, and suggestions for teachers to extend the curriculum with the following goals: to encourage students to apply their basic Latin knowledge to a complex work of Latin poetry, independently engage with Latin literature to expand their confidence in reading an unedited passage of Latin poetry with minimal external support, and to expand their knowledge of mythological stories and draw meaningful connections to similar stories in contemporary literature.