Book 9  of Ovid's  Metamorphoses  presents some unusual complications even as it repeats a pattern we've seen before -- one that...

This entry from Parada about Eurystheus helps place the tale of Heracles in context -- we are reminded that before Hebe answered Heracles...

Several versions of the Isis myth are readily found online. Here's one we have by way of Plutarch , which begins from the point when I...

Miletus  ( Ancient Greek : Μίλητος) Miletus was son of  Apollo  and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of  Crete . [1]  When Areia gave bir...

Heracles and Iolaus battle the Lernaean Hydra At the exact center of  Metamorphoses  9, the sudden appearance of a rejuvenated Iola...

But crimson Priapus, guardian and glory of gardens, Of them all, was captivated by Lotis : He desires, and prays, and sighs for her alo...

The adventures of Heracles (Hercules) as told by Ovid in Metamorphoses 9 break up what another writer might offer as a chronological narrat...