Five essential museum exhibitions—from Raphael at the Met to Zurbarán in London—plus tarot and Ovid-themed highlights.

This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisis ...

The story of Apollo and Daphne was written around the year zero by the Roman poet Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Ovid was a trainee lawyer and student of rhetoric. In the story, a woman named Daphne ...

Frances Myatt has received research funding from the University of Cambridge and the Caroline Fitzmaurice Trust. Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly know some of his stories. His ...

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 ...

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Seemingly at random, the 10 actors in director Isadora Wolfe’s reasonably involving production at Berkshire Theatre Group’s Unicorn Theatre, emerge in half light from a pool that dominates Jason Simms ...

Berkshire Theatre Group’s final production of the 2025 Summer Season is METAMORPHOSES. Based on the myths of Ovid, Mary Zimmerman’s METAMORPHOSES, winner of the Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award ...

Statue of Ovid in Constanța, Romania. Credit: www.bdmundo.com, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. If we took ancient Greece out of the equation, the Ovid we celebrate and admire today wouldn’t exist. Yes, Publius ...

WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. As he travels with Virgil from the Inferno into Purgatory in The Divine Comedy, Dante meets those who did not actually commit crimes, but who were guilty of ...

The gray of the stage, the black pool in the center, the sunset mural behind gold accented columns and a wooden piano all sharing the same relatively small space feels random and claustrophobic. But ...