Matters Arising

This picture by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was painted in 1867 and is now in a private collection. It illustrates the story in Livy which led ...

These two pictures from the 19th century do not show the naked Danae and shower of gold we have seen in the 16th , 17th , and 18th centurie...

As we move on from the 16th and 17th centuries, our first painting of Danae is by Antonio Bellucci. It was painted from 1700-1705 and is n...

We start our look at Danae in the 17th century with a painting from the first years of the century by Joachim Wtewael called "Jupiter...

Ovid does not tell the story of Danae in the Metamorphoses but alludes to it several times with reference to her son. Nevertheless, she has ...

The story of the Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris, their brother Set, their child Horus, and the sun god Ra is well known from a mixture of nat...

Moving on to the 17th century, the Royal Collection has a series of paintings by Luca Giordano illustrating the story of Cupid and Psyche,...

The story of Cupid and Psyche from books 4-6 of Apuleius's The Golden Ass has been a favourite subject for artists down the years. San...

25 May is the day the Anglican Church commemorates the Venerable Bede , patron saint of English historians. Here is the collect for the day:...

Apuleius, the 2nd century AD author of The Golden Ass , the next book in the calendar for the Roman History Reading Group , came from Madau...