Three Beauvais tapestries with subjects from Ovid's "Metamorphoses."

Der Regisseur Peter Beauvais prägte mit seinen vielfältigen Filmen das westdeutsche Fernsehen über fast drei Jahrzehnte. Er war erfahren in der Adaption literarischer Vorlagen – vo...

Whereas Plato is more commonly considered as an ancient source for The Picture of Dorian Gray, this chapter looks at Ovid and his Metamorphoses as a classical model for Wilde’s sol...

Jane Alison’s fascination with Ovid was apparent with the publication of her first book, The Love Artist—a vivid portrayal of Ovid’s exile and the woman who bewitched him. Alison’s...

Book IV of the Fasti, Ovid's celebration of the Roman calendar and its associated legends, is the book of April and honours the festivals of Venus, Cybele, Ceres, and their cult, a...

Chapter 7 considers a second central theme in Ovid’s Homeric reception, desire, and its evocation through repetition. The erotic tradition of Homeric reception that Ovid inherited ...

Jo Shapcott has engaged extensively with Ovid in her poetry (her volume My Book draws extensively upon both the Metamorphoses and the Tristia), but it was especially through her vo...

Ovid’s poems of exile have found new life not only through Darrieussecq’s translations, but also through the way in which they inform the poetry of Josephine Balmer whose volume Th...

Ovid's Heroides, a collection of twenty-one epistles in elegiac verse, consists of two groups, the first comprising fourteen poems addressed by heroines of mythology to their absen...