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

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

The question came up about the mode of succession of the early Roman kings. These seven kings held enormous civil and religious powers, ...