In Book 9, as Prof. Anderson notes, Ovid introduces the act of writing into the scene of Byblis in love with her twin brother. It is an op...

Port of Byblos BYBLOS bĭbˈləs , ancient city, Phoenicia, a port 17 mi (27 km) NNE of modern Beirut, Lebanon. The principal city of Ph...

Near the conclusion of Tristia 2 , Ovid laments at some length his exile at the command of Augustus. In addition to saying, essentially, ...

Miletus  ( Ancient Greek : Μίλητος) Miletus was son of  Apollo  and Areia, daughter of Cleochus, of  Crete . [1]  When Areia gave bir...

First, a correction. The story of Byblis and Caunus was known prior to Ovid. A discussion of the tale is found in Parthenius of Nicaea ...

With Byblis and Caunus in Metamorphoses 9, Ovid returns to the epistolary mode of his Heroides . Several of the letters are in pairs, with...

The well-preserved Ixion room at the Casa dei Vetti : The wheel of Ixion is partly visible here Daedalus presents his device to...

Professor Anderson's attentive eye noticed more than one interesting thing about this passage in Book 9 -- it's the moment Heracle...

Heracles and Iolaus battle the Lernaean Hydra At the exact center of  Metamorphoses  9, the sudden appearance of a rejuvenated Iola...

But crimson Priapus, guardian and glory of gardens, Of them all, was captivated by Lotis : He desires, and prays, and sighs for her alo...