Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures by Angelica Kauffman (1785). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly ...
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 ...
It has been called an “epic of rape”, with good reason. Almost no one—almost nothing—in Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is safe from seduction (or worse). Animal, vegetable, mineral: all are tainted. Leda lies ...
From the March 2026 issue of Apollo. Ovid’s Metamorphoses has been a transformational text for 2,000 years. The epic, a compendium of some 250 myths, was hugely popular in antiquity, while no fewer ...
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