Matters Arising

Book VI of the Metamorphoses opens with the story of Arachne . (picture from wikicommons by galak76, used by permission under creative comm...

After Perseus defeats the sea monster and rescues Andromeda, the Ethiopians hold a feast in his honour and he tells the story of how he defe...

In the early 1600s Carlo Saraceni, inspired by Giorgio Vasari's Perseus and Andromeda, which we looked at in my previous post , produced...

In my last post we looked at some 16th century art featuring the story of Lucretia. Roman History Books and More came up with another exa...

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

I'm reading Steven Saylor's Roma in preparation for the Roman History Books Group's book chats on 19 February and 5 March. ...

Ovid's next story is about Semele, one of Jupiter's mortal loves. Juno persuaded Semele to ask Jupiter to show himself to her in a...

You may remember from the story of Coronis that on its way to tell Apollo about Coronis's infidelity, the raven met a crow. The cro...

(Picture by Torsten Bronger via wikipedia, used under GNU Free Documentation License ) As I said in a previous post , Jupiter's attempt...