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 ...

QUAINT old Dr. Popkin, Greek professor at Harvard in the last generation, was always sighing after the time when he should retire from active service and “ read the authors.” Such is always the ...

The life of Roman poet Catullus was stranger than fiction, but a new biography speculates far more than any history should. The lure of these dark arts is strong for any scholar who approaches ...

In my reading, I often come across an epigraph from the Roman poet, essayist, satirist, and critic Horace – always wise, appropriate, and slightly skeptical because Horace looked at life realistically ...

The Roman poet Martial recorded vivid descriptions of gladiatorial combat, including a rare reference that suggests women fought in the arena. But because his manuscripts were copied by hand over ...

Valentine’s Day brings perennial themes of love and passion into the public consciousness, not unlike the voices of the poets of antiquity which enticed the reader into the hearts and minds of ancient ...

The voice of the ancient Roman poet, Catullus, like Sappho’s, sounds contemporary. This new translation by David Mulroy is almost too contemporary. A back-jacket quote sets Catullus up as “a wild ...

A crisp new rendering of the Roman poet’s poems underlines how difficult it is to fully relate all his complexities and contradictions. Stefan Bakałowicz’s Roman poet Catullus reading to his friends ...

Amsterdam (AFP) – Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum on Friday opens the biggest exhibition ever devoted to art inspired by "Metamorphoses", Roman poet Ovid's most famous work, featuring contributions from ...