In  an interview on "To the Best of Our Knowledge ," the editor of the classics journal  Eidolon  takes on USian white supremacis...

When Ovid calls himself  vates , he is taking a term that had sacred connotations, but then had "fallen into "contempt," ac...

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

Aeacidae   Chiron ,  ego   sum   praeceptor   Amoris   As Chiron to that son of Aeacus, I am the tutor of Love*   ( AA 1.17 ) From ...

When Ovid was writing the Ars Amatoria , the empire was in its infancy. The city grew in magnificence commensurate with its stature. Thi...

Update: Thanks to Jean, we now have an addition to our list of translations of the Ars: J.D. Hejduk's The Offense of Love - see below...

Crewman of Odysseus turning into a beast A new tale of Circe , told from the point of view of the daughter of Helios, is just out. ...

From The Guardian Rome city council overturns banishment of ‘one of the greatest poets’ more than 2,000 years after Augustus forced hi...

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...