In this New Yorker review of Stephanie McCarter's translation of Ovid's  Metamorphoses,  Daniel Mendelsohn offers some thoughtful ob...

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

 Part of an excellent post on Popova's Brain Pickings: James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom We, non...

 Our Classics group is currently reading Euripides' Medea,  and of course it brought to mind Ovid's fascination with the enchantress...

From " The Unbearable Lightness of Ovid ": Tom Hendrickson offers a careful description of the "books" Ovid, exiled, wr...

In honor of Ovid's Bimillennium, a group of essays has been posted by In Medias Res, a magazine published by the Paideia Institute. The...

In  an interview on "To the Best of Our Knowledge ," the editor of the classics journal  Eidolon  takes on USian white supremacis...

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

Aeacidae   Chiron ,  ego   sum   praeceptor   Amoris   As Chiron to that son of Aeacus, I am the tutor of Love*   ( AA 1.17 ) From ...

Update: Thanks to Jean, we now have an addition to our list of translations of the Ars: J.D. Hejduk's The Offense of Love - see below...

Crewman of Odysseus turning into a beast A new tale of Circe , told from the point of view of the daughter of Helios, is just out. ...

From The Guardian Rome city council overturns banishment of ‘one of the greatest poets’ more than 2,000 years after Augustus forced hi...

The appearance of the gaggle of pole -- jackdaws, or grey crows ( cornacchie grige ) - in Paradiso 21 is a strangely unsolemn moment in ...

From the Washington Post : “Not far from the walls of Enna, there is a deep pool,” begins Ovid’s version of the rape of Persephone. “Whi...

When a love poet invokes the great epic heroes, the substance and rhetoric of  eros  is always in play. In a very Ovidian manner, Propertiu...

Update: a follow-up post on the letter is here . Next time, we'll have a look at Deianira's letter to Heracles from Ovid...

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

The winds - a Metamorphoses comic .

We're turning to a few shorter modes after completing Sophocles'  Antigone - beginning with Pindar's First Olympian Ode, and P...

Ovid's Heroides as fan fiction : Sappho and Phaon Ovid, in my opinion, is first author to truly take the time to write his vers...