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Pyramus, Thisbe, and Rome’s Most Tragic Mistake (Part II)

Did Ovid Bury Philippi in a Love Story?
Mike Fontaine |
Sulmona, Corfinium, and the Poet Who Wouldn’t Say “Philippi” (Part I)

Was Ovid Really Apolitical?
Mike Fontaine |
2026 Paideia High School Essay Contest Winner

Becoming Unable to Become: How Metamorphosis Stops Time
Shinjini Sinha |
2026 Paideia High School Essay Contest Winner

Ovid's Immortal Tapestry: Women of the Metamorphoses
Hannah Gumpert |
Theo Angelopoulos's Odyssey of Balkan Identity.

Gazing on Ulysses
Paul Cartledge |
A love story grounded in women's labor.

Amaryllis, Cheesemaker
Catherine Connors |
A love poem rarely read the same way twice.

An erotic epiphany (but for whom?): Ovid, Amores 1.5.9-10
Stephen Hinds |
Introducing a new translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations by poet Aaron Poochigian.

The Emperor’s Notebook
Aaron Poochigian |
And you might be misremembering some of its major narrative episodes. 

The Odyssey is Complicated
Mark Buchan |
Propertius 2.15: violence, or role-play?

The Bed and the Battlefield
Joy Connolly |