Recently I had the pleasure of listening to Professor Elizabeth Vandiver's lectures on the Aeneid -- a most rewarding six hours -- and...

From the start of Metamorphoses 10, Orpheus is dealing with shadows. Overcome by Amor , he descends to win back Eurydice, and encounters th...

Professor Anderson's attentive eye noticed more than one interesting thing about this passage in Book 9 -- it's the moment Heracle...

One thing we learn from Ovid is that something that seemed immovable, assured, irreversible, can rather suddenly be turned upside down. We n...

In Book 6, Ovid takes up not simply art per se , but art in relation to wisdom -- as we have seen in the tale of Arachne and Athena. And whi...

Pindar: Pythian 12 τὸ δὲ μόρσιμον οὐ παρφυκτόν ,— ἀλλ᾽ ἔσται χρόνος οὗτος , ὃ καί τιν᾽ ἀελπτίᾳ βαλὼν ἔμπαλιν γνώμας τὸ μὲν ...