One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

“Metamorphoses” by Ovid, trans. Stephanie McCarter. Penguin. 608 pages. Ovid begins the “Metamorphoses” by declaring his intention to weave a carmen perpetuum, a perpetual song, in the senses both of ...

To teach is always to be in the middle of the next story. This realization strikes me anew every autumn, as the days lose more light and my students accelerate into the end-of-semester scramble. Then, ...

Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly know some of his stories. His most famous work, the Metamorphoses, is a Latin epic poem composed of hundreds of tales of mythical ...

Barbara Weiden Boyd is a big fan of Ovid, the Latin poet who died just about two thousand years ago. Apart from being a great humorist, she said, Ovid should be applauded for his brilliant re-working ...

Writer/director Christophe Honoré adapts Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” into a lyrical and philosophical film of the same title. Honoré sets the events in a contemporary environment, while ...