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 ...
WEST STOCKBRIDGE -- " My lines / will be on people's lips; and through all time -- / if poets' prophecies are ever right -- / my name and fame are sure: I shall have life." These words of Ovid's were ...
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF OUR CONCEPT OF CHAOS? The term 'chaos' appears for the first time in world literature in a remarkable passage in Hesiod's Theogony, but almost certainly it does not ...