To teach is always to be in the middle of the next story. This realization strikes me anew every autumn, as the days lose more light and my students accelerate into the end-of-semester scramble. Then, ...

You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with ...

A new exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is showcasing a sprawling collection of artworks inspired by Ovid’s poem Metamorphoses. The show includes more than 80 paintings, sculptures, ceramics, ...

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures by Angelica Kauffman (1785). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Even if you haven’t heard of Ovid, you almost certainly ...

Theatre Smith-Gilmour, the respected physical theatre company run by wife-and-husband team Michele Smith and Dean Gilmour since 1980, first turned their attention to the classic narrative poem ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At the start of Metamorphoses, Ovid promises his readers the world: the transformations wrought by gods and men ...