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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: How Love Transforms

Written by Katherine Smyth, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom If there is one literary work that has inspired a legacy of artists, poets, and creators, it’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Comprising 250 myths and over nearly 1200 lines of poetry, it makes up an impressive 15 books of life-defining narration. Ovid’s work doesn’t just offer a creation myth,

Written on February 5, 2020 at 11:00 am, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Apollo, cupid, Homer, iliad, love, metamorphoses, Odyssey, Ovid, phoebus

Polyphemus: Two faces of a Cyclops

Written by Katherine Smyth, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Polyphemus is best known as the Cyclops that Odysseus and his men encountered on their return from the Trojan War. But, is there another side to this man-eating giant? And what happened to him after Odysseus sailed away? The legend is born Polyphemus was one of the

Written on January 29, 2020 at 10:00 am, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Aeneas, Ancient Greek Mythology, cyclopes, Cyclops, Galatea, Homer, Odysseus, Ovid, Polyphemus, Poseidon, The Odyssey, Trojan War

The Passion of Christ-ian Poetry

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom It is difficult to know definitively when the ‘Ancient World’ came to an end. In all likelihood, the demise of Rome and the beginning of the Dark Ages was far more a transition than any single event. But even if we’re on flimsy ground regarding the moment of

Written on July 26, 2019 at 9:26 am, by Ben Potter

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Categories: Literature

Tags: Arians, Augustine, Donatists, Early Christian Poetry, Horace, King James Bible, Manichees, Ovid, Pelagians, Priscillians, Sedulius

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 June 17, 2019 at 9:59 am, by Nicole Saldarriaga

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Categories: Monsters

Tags: Arachne, Athena, Metamorphosis, Minerva, Ovid

Hippolytus: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

By Jocelyn Hitchcock, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom It sounds like something straight out of a modern –albeit extremely tragic- weekday soap opera: step-son (Hippolytus) incurs the wrath of someone higher up (Aphrodite) because he fails to honor the cultural customs associated with her; scorned woman (Aphrodite) initiates plan of revenge on step-son by having step

Written on February 7, 2019 at 7:48 pm, by Jocelyn Hitchcock

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Categories: Mythology

Tags: Aphrodite, Euripides, Greek Mythology, Hippolytus, Ovid, Phaedra, Seneca the Younger, Theseus

Do All Roads ACTUALLY Lead to Rome?

We all know the phrase “All roads lead to Rome”. Today, it is used proverbially and has come to mean something like “there is more than one way to reach the same goal”. But did all roads ever really lead to the eternal city? The Power of Pavement There was a close connection between roads

Written on August 1, 2018 at 5:11 pm, by plato

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Categories: Archeology

Tags: Agrippa, Augustus, Colosseum, Ovid, Pantheon, Plutarch, Roman empire, Roman Roads

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