Ovid's letter from Deianira to Hercules ( Heroides #9 ) recounts the standard list of the hero's mighty deeds: . . . of enormous ...

Next time, we'll pause our reading of Sophocles' Women of Trachis to have a look at Deianira's letter to Heracles from O...

A slender volume by a close reader. Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet culls superb lines from the entire corpus of Greek literature o...

He to whom flickering Night, despoiled of shining armor  gives birth and lays down to sleep ablaze,  Sun, Sun, I ask  that you proc...

Deianira's opening speech in  Women of Trachis is a powerfully compressed reminiscence of a married woman in the prime of life. Exiled...

Ovid's Fasti contain a host of tales, some rather bawdy. Here's part of the tale ( Fasti Book 2 ) of Faunus, who spied Omphale wa...

The stories about Heracles are so various and numerous as to dwarf all other heroes. The tale of Xenocleia, linked to the murder of Iphit...

Ovid offered another perspective on Hercules and Iole in Heroides 9, a letter from Deianira to the hero, with a sly dig - here's Klin...

The BBC brings us yet another Heracles. A show in which the images allegorize the achievements of the Russian strongman. He grapples with...

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...