Category: Ted Hughes

Ovid

May 3, 2025

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in Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Latin, Roman Empire, Rome, Ted Hughes

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) Ancient Italy — Ovid Banished From RomeExhibited 1838 Oil on canvas © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY This work treats the ancient poet Ovid’s purported exile from Rome, reconstructed here as a panoply of temples, triumphal arches, and statuary from different periods of the city’s…
Actaeon

Mar 3, 2025

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in Ancient Rome, Everything Latin, Greek and Roman Mythology, Greek Mythology, Poetry, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Ted Hughes

Praise for Tales from Ovid: ‘A breathtaking book…To compare his versions with the Latin is to be awestruck again and again by the range and ingenuity of his poetic intelligence…He rescues the old gods and goddesses from the classical dictionaries and gives them back their terror. There should be a copy of his book in…