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

We said we did not require dirges and lamentations in words. We do not. What, then, are the dirge-like modes of music? Tell me, for you ...

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...

A few questions implicit in Book 6 (Standard disclaimer: I don't know the answers, though I have some suspicions). - What is Arachne...