Book 11 of Ovid's poem brings us some of the most vivid tales of the  Metamorphoses -- from the savage dismemberment of Orpheus, to th...

With Book 11, Ovid turns -- if "turn" is the right word -- to Troy, the sacred mother city of Rome. As such, no detail related to...

The best-known ancient telling of the Orpheus-Eurydice tale is found in Virgil's fourth Georgic. It's a powerful prior poetic trea...