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 ...

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, ...

You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with ...

Artists from Bernini to Louise Bourgeois are brought together in a new exhibition exploring the uncomfortable erotic parables of the ancient Roman poet On three massive screens in a darkened room, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the start of Metamorphoses, Ovid promises his readers the world: the transformations wrought by gods and men ...

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 ...

Theatre Smith-Gilmour, the respected physical theatre company run by wife-and-husband team Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour since 1980, first turned their attention to the classic narrative poem ...

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 ...

In 1604, the painter Karel van Mander called it the “Bible for artists”; Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic retelling of the mythical contortions and tussles between mortals and the gods, has proven ...

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 ...