A few of the many questions that Ovid's text of Hercules, Achelous, and Theseus provokes for me - no particular order: Why the careful...

The legendary beginnings of the city of Heracleion include Helen and Paris, as well as its namesake: It was believed that Paris an...

Two more marvels from the ever beguiling Helen. The passages have been reworked from Perseus and Showerman (Loeb) to approach their complex...

Our next reading will be Sophocles' Women of Trachis , but given our recent involvement with Ovid, the plan is to spend one session on ...

Jutta shared this from the WSJ . . . a salad bowl-sized vessel on display in the Homer gallery depicts Helen of Troy's reluctance to...

...picking up the thread from here ... Ovid of course was familiar with the allegorization of the Judgment of Paris as a parable of ch...

The oldest known surviving carpet in the world belonged to a Scythian prince, and dates back to the 5th century BC. Pazyryk  carpet  ...

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop." - H.L. Mencken One choice Ovid had to make in Heroides 16 and 17 was ...