In this New Yorker review of Stephanie McCarter's translation of Ovid's  Metamorphoses,  Daniel Mendelsohn offers some thoughtful ob...

Medieval and Renaissance art and iconography would be very different had writers and artists of the time not encountered Ovid's work. An...

 Part of an excellent post on Popova's Brain Pickings: James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom We, non...

 Our Classics group is currently reading Euripides' Medea,  and of course it brought to mind Ovid's fascination with the enchantress...

From " The Unbearable Lightness of Ovid ": Tom Hendrickson offers a careful description of the "books" Ovid, exiled, wr...

In honor of Ovid's Bimillennium, a group of essays has been posted by In Medias Res, a magazine published by the Paideia Institute. The...

In  an interview on "To the Best of Our Knowledge ," the editor of the classics journal  Eidolon  takes on USian white supremacis...

When Ovid calls himself  vates , he is taking a term that had sacred connotations, but then had "fallen into "contempt," ac...

The moment Ovid's  praeceptor  of Love takes the podium, he's selling something -- starting with himself. The poet of the Ars Amato...

Aeacidae   Chiron ,  ego   sum   praeceptor   Amoris   As Chiron to that son of Aeacus, I am the tutor of Love*   ( AA 1.17 ) From ...