The linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) is best remembered as co-editor, with his brother Wilhelm, of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, though their great Deutsches ...
Continue Reading → Ovid is, after Homer, the single most important source for classical mythology. The Metamorphoses, which he wrote over the six-year period leading up to ...
Continue Reading → In Orestes, the famous Greek tragic dramatist Euripides (c. 480 BC to 406 BC) revisits the bloody history of the House of Atreus and ...
Continue Reading →Hesiod describes himself as a Boeotian shepherd who heard the Muses call upon him to sing about the gods. His exact dates are unknown, but ...
Continue Reading →“Intended to be prefixed to the Second Volume of the ‘Select Specimens of Ancient Sculpture,’ published by the Society of Dilettanti; but the ...
Continue Reading →This influential work of 1818 by dilettante and critic Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) has stood the test of time. The study investigates the ...
Continue Reading →The first edition had been published in 1747 (after lengthy preparation – Spence had assembled preparatory material during his first visit to Italy). ...
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