Virgil in Inferno 26 tells Dante not to speak to Ulysses - he'll speak for him, because, he says, "They were Greeks, perhaps they...

One reason that the  Philoctetes is an extraordinary work -- a classic -- is that it takes on one of the most difficult confrontations ima...

Sometimes looking at a work from another angle brings a renewed appreciation for something one thought had already been sufficiently savore...

Since we're thinking about Homer's epics in connection with Heroides I , it was good to find a brief note in sententiae antiquae (...

Ovid begins his book of love letters with Penelope, writing to her husband whose fate is unknown. As she explains, she heard much of the ...

Here's a nice atlas full of illustrations of the Iliad and Odyssey, via Public Domain Review .