Crewman of Odysseus turning into a beast A new tale of Circe , told from the point of view of the daughter of Helios, is just out. ...

For Mario ~ Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis , she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitar...

The three great voyages of the ancient Mediterranean, in order of occurrence - click to enlarge: Jason Odysseus Aeneas...

Heracles and the Cercopes One of the many pleasures of the Metamorphoses comes in using the book as a travelogue - a sort of Rough Gu...

In his celebrated essay entitled The Storyteller , Walter Benjamin tells us that one of the functions of fairy tales was to enable us to d...

Sophocles' Philoctotes offers the confrontation of two modes of getting things done - (via Parada's entry on Neoptolemus): Ne...

After Ajax has scornfully cast Ulysses as the son of Sisyphus (which was a rumor ), that is, a sneaky cowardly fellow who can't be trus...

The old saying goes: "To the victor belong the spoils," but what if there are two victors? After the battle of weapons comes the...

Metamorphoses 12 gave us a sideways glimpse of Troy through the lens of Nestor, the voice of the epic past, featuring a pre-Iliadic battle ...

A few notes on the context for Metamorphoses book 12: Ixion, notorious fellow  and begetter, one way or another, of the Centaurs: Ixio...

In the latter half of Metamorphoses 7, Ovid pointedly stage manages meetings between Aeacus and Minos, and then Aeacus and Cephalus. Thes...