Ovid’s Metamorphoses (AD 3-8) was not originally as controversial as his other poetic works. But as centuries have passed, its notoriety has increased. Recent calls to provide trigger-warnings to ...

One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

Who’d have thunk it? It’s amusing to imagine this is what Ovid, the Roman poet best known for his mythological epic Metamorphoses, might say today if he learned that a play based on his work had ...

In 2015, four Columbia University undergraduates published an op-ed in their student paper petitioning English professors to affix trigger warnings to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poem’s “vivid ...

Talk about a comeback. Ovid, that ancient Roman wordsmith, wrote his “Metamorphoses” more than two millennia ago. Now, this month, there are two productions of the play based on that famous work ...

Writer/director Christophe Honoré adapts Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” into a lyrical and philosophical film of the same title. Honoré sets the events in a contemporary environment, while ...

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 ...