Medieval and Renaissance art and iconography would be very different had writers and artists of the time not encountered Ovid's work. An...

Doubtless every reader of the Metamorphoses will come up with his/her own sampling of parts -- themes, motifs, structuring elements, poetic...

The three short tales  inserted between Hippolytus and the voyage of Aesculapius in Metamorphoses 15 pose interpretive challenges that have...

Over the dozen or so years that our "classics group" has been meeting in Sarasota, we've evolved a practice that has worked w...

Deucalion's speech to Pyrrha is remarkable for several reasons. In it one hears a note that will return at various moments in later cent...