Velazquez, Las Hilanderas I wonder if anyone ever knew more about mirrors than Diego Velazquez. A more precise title for this blog post woul...

Last time we noted that with the ending of book 5, the Metamorphoses seems to reach a point of closure -- at least, a momentary articulatio...

Among the memorable characters in Metamorphoses 6 is Niobe, the daughter of Tantalos, the fabled king punished in the Underworld. Tantalos i...

Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother First—hell is not so far underground— My hair gets tangled in the roots of trees & I can just...

NPR has two recent, worthwhile stories about the reawakening of the text of Lucretius -- relevant here since Ovid weaves a strain of scient...

This page about Magna Graecia relates the Sicilian city of Syracuse to the tale of Arethusa, to Corinth, to Medusa, and to the tradition of...

Corinth The second part of book 5 offers Calliope's tale of the subjection of Typhoeus, the rape of Persephone, the liquification of Cya...

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser In the Metamorphoses of Ovid, Rukeyser's apothegm is apt -- at leas...

Medusa The Rape of Persephone

JSTOR announced it is opening the door to its formerly closed world of academic publications a bit. It has made a substantial collection of ...