Ovid

What Suitcases Taught Ana Menéndez About Art, Exile, and Poetry

The Author of The Apartment on Learning to Trust In Our Destinations

 
By Ana Menéndez  June 26, 2023
Trans History

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

By Grace Lavery  May 31, 2023
Mythology

Reading the Power Dynamics of Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

By Stephanie McCarter  November 8, 2022
Mythology

Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

By Jennifer Saint   May 4, 2022
Greek Mythology

Is Clytemnestra an Archetypically Bad Wife or a Heroically Avenging Mother?

By Natalie Haynes  March 28, 2022
Fantasy

Why Do We Love the Brutality of “Grimdark” Fantasy?

By Alexa Schmitt Bugler  March 23, 2022
Greek Mythology

Why Do We Return to the Greek Myths Again and Again?

By Literary Hub  January 11, 2022
Priorities

Stop Obsessing: A Reading List for Finding Joy in Irrelevance

By Amy Leach  November 16, 2021
The Hub

Jhumpa Lahiri’s new book on translation will be published next spring.

By Vanessa Willoughby  September 14, 2021
The History of Literature

A. Natasha Joukovsky on Oscar Wilde, Ovid, and the Myth of Narcissus

By History of Literature  July 19, 2021
On Translation

On the Diplomatic Mistranslation That Changed the Course of History

By Anna Aslanyan  June 21, 2021
Mythology

The Overwhelming Power of Beauty: Deconstructing Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for Modern Times

By Kathryn Lofton  June 8, 2021
The Hub

Jhumpa Lahiri is working on a new translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

By Walker Caplan  May 18, 2021
Love

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

By Literary Hub  February 12, 2021
Reading Lists

Lit Hub Recommends: Downton Abbey and Metamorphoses

By Literary Hub  December 13, 2019
Cultural Studies

How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
in the 18th Century

By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
Mythology

On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
Marriage

The Painter’s Wife vs. The Poet’s Husband: Portrait of a Marriage

By Shawna Lemay  August 6, 2019
Excerpts

Metamorphica

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 31, 2018
Conversations

A Lot of My ‘Process’ is Just Mucking About

By Peter Mishler  June 28, 2018
History

From Penelope to Pussyhats, The Ancient Origins of Feminist Craftivism

By Stephanie McCarter  June 7, 2017
Essay

Our Language is Ever Updating, But Meaning Remains

By Lyz Lenz  August 15, 2016
Deep Dive

Was Yeats’ “The Second Coming” Really About Donald Trump?

By Jay Parini  April 18, 2016
Essay

A Literary History of Witches

By Jess Bergman  October 30, 2015
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