(Apologies for length - this sort of got away from what was intended to be a relatively brief comment.) "Of all the cities that me...

Book 11 of Ovid's poem brings us some of the most vivid tales of the  Metamorphoses -- from the savage dismemberment of Orpheus, to th...

Trachis lay in Central Greece - on this map, it's the area marked as "Malis." At its north is Mt. Orthys, scene of the pri...

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