Ovid

AS contributed a modern reworking of the Iphis and Ianthe myth from Ovid 's Metamorphoses to the Canongate Myth Series; her short novel Girl Meets Boy resituates Ovid's classic tale of lesbian romance and gender...

AB 's well-known The Disappointment, about a pastoral episode of male impotence, is freely translated from a French original which is itself adapted from a passage in Ovid 's Art of Love. It...

Critic Raphael Lyne argues that IW may have written two more poems in poulter's measure: Dido to Aeneas (a translation from Ovid ) and Aeneas to Dido (original), which appeared together in F. L.'s...

Love's Martyr deals with the supposed unhappy love-affair between the Roman poet Ovid and Julia , the daughter of Augustus Caesar , who of course plans to marry her to someone more patrician and military...

Catharine Macaulay , she insists, was pleasing and delicate in her person, and a woman of great feeling and indisputable abilities, though the democratic spirit of her writings has made them fall into disrepute.She...