The familiar figure of Silenus as a staggering drunk (Ovid's word is titubantem ) surrounded by a merry band of satyrs and bacchantes i...

Rubens offers a memorable Silenus (thanks Arline) - more later -  The original Silenus resembled a folklore man of the forest w...

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...

As Metamorphoses 10 begins, Ovid makes clear that Orpheus is putting aside all the wiles of rhetoric when he makes his plea to Hades: ‘O...

Reni [Parts of this have been edited for readability with a bit added.] Metamorphoses 10 closes with the pathos of the immortal god...

If you look for Myrrha in Dante's Commedia , you might be surprised where she can be found. In the 10th bolgia, or sac, of the eighth ...

NPR has a story about the current revival of popular histories of ancient Rome, featuring a new history   by Anthony Everitt of Nottingh...

Mussy points us to a nice online version of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis . The epithet of the poem might be of interest: vilia mir...

In Metamorphoses 10, Orpheus sets the enframed tale of Atalanta and Hippomenes as told by Venus to Adonis:                              ...

Perdita. For I have heard it said, There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature.  Polixenes.         ...