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

A conference on Ovid and Postmodernism at Oxford. It is by now a critical commonplace to demonstrate the affinity between Ovidian and po...

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

In The Tempest , Ariel is trapped in a tree, and owes his liberty to the magic of Prospero, who managed the spirit's liberation from th...