The appearance of the gaggle of pole -- jackdaws, or grey crows ( cornacchie grige ) - in Paradiso 21 is a strangely unsolemn moment in ...

From the Washington Post : “Not far from the walls of Enna, there is a deep pool,” begins Ovid’s version of the rape of Persephone. “Whi...

When a love poet invokes the great epic heroes, the substance and rhetoric of  eros  is always in play. In a very Ovidian manner, Propertiu...

Update: a follow-up post on the letter is here . Next time, we'll have a look at Deianira's letter to Heracles from Ovid...

A conference on Ovid and Postmodernism at Oxford. It is by now a critical commonplace to demonstrate the affinity between Ovidian and po...

Loeb Library to go digital . We still prefer the little volumes, but one hopes this will be a free, open-access project.

The winds - a Metamorphoses comic .

There's a nice contrastive piece by Lucas Kwong in the Yale Undergraduate Journal of Classics about Penelope as she appears in the Odys...

We're turning to a few shorter modes after completing Sophocles'  Antigone - beginning with Pindar's First Olympian Ode, and P...

Ovid's Heroides as fan fiction : Sappho and Phaon Ovid, in my opinion, is first author to truly take the time to write his vers...