Tag Archives: Ovid

Athena and Arachne: How the Spider Came to Be

Or, The Girl Who Told the Truth about the Gods By Nicole Saldarriaga, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom I’d take a look at the humble spider. Though spiders may not qualify as the most terrifying of creatures, their inclusion in a popular myth about Roman goddess, Minerva, certainly clues us into what the Greeks and Romans

Written on May 20, 2022 at 1:22 pm, by Sean Kelly

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Categories: Monsters

Tags: Arachne, Athena, Metamorphosis, Minerva, Ovid

Heroides: Ovid’s Brilliance Through the Female Voice

By Visnja Bojovic, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “Whatever words are here, read on to the end. How could reading this letter hurt you? Indeed, my words might even give you pleasure. These letters carry my secret thoughts over land and sea,” So writes Ovid in the Letter from Phaedra to Hippolytus from his magnificent work,

Written on October 1, 2021 at 8:00 pm, by Visnja Bojovic

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Categories: Culture, Literature

Tags: Greek Mythology, Heroides, Letters, love, Ovid

The Art of Slander: How to Create a Masterpiece, Troll Your Enemies, and Win Bigly: Part 1 of 2

Written by Michael Fontaine, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Ever seen this picture? Titled The Calumny of Apelles, it’s in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Take a look, and use the labels I’ve added to figure out what’s going on. Painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1495, there’s a little-known essay about it that is one of

Written on May 19, 2021 at 6:03 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Art

Tags: Apelles, Art History, Lucian, Obsopoeus, Ovid, renaissance, Slander, wine

The 6 Ancient Greek and Roman Classics Everyone Should Read

Written by Nicole Garrison, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Hellenes and Romans sure knew how to create and appreciate exceptional literature. So for all of you who are contemplating whether you should add some classics to your reading list, trust me, you should! In the times of the ancient Greeks and the Roman Empire, literature

Written on September 24, 2020 at 11:00 am, by KristinD

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Categories: Ancient Greek books

Tags: Aristophanes, Essential Classics, greek literature, Homer, literature, Ovid, The Odyssey

#CancelCulture: Lessons from the Ancient World

Written by Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Sometimes, late at night when we can hear the ocean outside our window, we wonder what the ancients would think of us… Would they be proud? Amused? Perplexed? Surely, we imagine, we won’t repeat ALL the mistakes of our classical forebearers. Somebody must have read Aristotle, Cicero,

Written on July 17, 2020 at 6:06 am, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, democracy, Exile, Ostracism, Ovid, Politics, socrates, Socratic dialogue, Twitter

The Exile of Ovid: Tragedy of a Great Poet

By Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) is one of the great poets of Rome and indeed of the classical world. He is still studied and read to this day and his works, especially the Metamorphoses has consistently maintained its popularity. While he is remembered as a poet of love and

Written on February 10, 2020 at 9:09 pm, by plato

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Categories: Poets

Tags: Augustus, Exil, Fasti, Ovid, Tiberus

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