Ovid

4 09, 2017

Ovid and the Metamorphoses – Roman literature

By |2020-04-17T05:26:01-07:00September 4th, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Ovid and the Metamorphoses – Roman literature

Part of a page from a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses (South Italy, 1000s AD, just as the Normans were conquering it) When did Ovid live? With the end of the Roman [...]

3 09, 2017

Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome

By |2019-05-23T18:41:04-07:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Echo and Narcissus – Ovid’s Metamorphoses – ancient Rome

Narcissus and his pond (Third Style Roman painting from Pompeii, about 79 AD) - Echo and Narcissus Where is Echo's story from? Echo and Narcissus is a story we know [...]

3 09, 2017

Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome

By |2019-11-03T18:03:15-08:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Romans|Comments Off on Latin Literature – the writers of ancient Rome

Latin literature: A Roman papyrus scroll from a library of Epicurean philosophy (Herculaneum, Italy) Where did Latin come from? The Roman Empire lasted for more than a thousand years, so there was [...]

3 09, 2017

Philemon and Baucis – Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By |2018-04-25T10:20:25-07:00September 3rd, 2017|Literature, Religion, Romans|Comments Off on Philemon and Baucis – Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Just a loaf of bread This is a story we only know because Ovid wrote it down in his poem, the Metamorphoses. It might be a traditional Greek story, but we don't know [...]

3 08, 2017

Boccaccio – Decameron – Medieval literature

By |2020-04-21T06:25:16-07:00August 3rd, 2017|Literature, Medieval|Comments Off on Boccaccio – Decameron – Medieval literature

Florence, Italy Who was Boccaccio? Most of the people who knew how to write in the early Middle Ages were monks. So most of them wrote about serious things like God and [...]

14 07, 2017

Arachne and Athena – the Arachne story in Greek mythology

By |2018-10-02T09:32:08-07:00July 14th, 2017|Greeks, Literature|8 Comments

The Arachne story: Greek women weaving at a warp-weighted loom - Athens, 500s BC Who was Arachne? Arachne was a girl who lived in Greece a long long time ago (in the story; this [...]

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