Given the prominence offered Pythagoras in Metamorphoses 15, it might be worth noting that Aristotle's early work in the dialogue form...

With the tale of Aesculapius and his relocation to Rome from Epidaurus in Metamorphoses 15, it might help to bear in mind that after nearl...

According to Samuel Johnson, John Milton in his latter years had three favorite authors: The books in which his daughter, who used to rea...

Pythagoras turned geometrical philosophy into a form of liberal education by seeking its first principles in a higher realm of reality. Pr...

The appearance of Pythagoras in Metamorphoses 15 is a remarkable instance of Ovid's poetic risk-taking. This time he quite deliberatel...

When Egeria, consort of Numa Pompilius, disconsolately liquifies at Aricia ( Metamorphoses 15:479 ff .), her transformation distinctly echo...

After Metamorphoses 15, anyone curious to know more about Pythagoras and the impact of what was made of his thinking in after times might ...

Numa's trip to Croton gives us the opportunity to hear Pythagoras's speech. It's one of the longest of the Metamorphoses , comp...

The story was told that the founders of Crotona and Sybaris both consulted the Oracle at Delphi at the same time and were given the choice...