Matters Arising

I have written before about the life of Coriolanus as told by Livy and Plutarch and about Shakespeare's use of Plutarch's Life of...

As I mentioned in my previous post , "rape" here means abduction or kidnapping rather than sexual assault. For those unfamiliar w...

As we move on into Book IV of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", Arsippe, one of the daughters of Minyas, tells Ovid's next story, P...

Despite his key role in drama, the story of Tiresias has not really proved inspirational to artists. He puts in a rare appearance in this...