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

We have little awareness of their epics, songs, or modes of speech, but the Etruscans left something of their world behind. Etrus...

Book 14 of the Metamorphoses offers the suggestive juxtaposition of Circe and Pomona, so different in their modes of work, and in their re...

lekythos 460 BC If you sometimes wish Ovid's tales could come to life, you might want to visit the Tampa Museum of Art's curre...

grande doloris ingenium est, miserisque venit sollertia rebus; ...

One theory of art that Ovid would certainly have known is found in Aristotle's view of art as mimesis, or imitation. In relation to th...

Corinth The second part of book 5 offers Calliope's tale of the subjection of Typhoeus, the rape of Persephone, the liquification of Cya...

Turner, Ovid Banished from Rome "The lives of artists are more fragile than their creations. The poet Ovid was exiled by Augustus to a...