Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), eminent Latin poet, is known for sparkling works on myth and love. He lived from 43 BGC to about 17 GC.
Tereus married Procne. He raped her sister Philomena and cut out her tongue. Procne & Philomena killed Procne’s son Itys and fed him to his father Tereus. … Read the post Chrétien de Troyes excused Philomena for killing her innocent son
The medieval poem “Profuit ignaris” and Rabelais’s Tiers Livre show the classical circle of castration and cuckolding without true love for men. … Read the post break the classical circle: love beyond castration and cuckolding
Ovid and Jerome taught men not to write formulaic, courtly love letters. But medieval formulae indicate that men used such form-letter love letters. … Read the post Ovid & Jerome vs. courtly love letters by formulae template
The myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, first written in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, developed to be acutely gender-polarized in Chaucer’s The Legend of Good Women. … Read the post Pyramus & Thisbe from Ovid’s gender subtlety to polarized Chaucer
The unique 11th-century Ovidian Versus Eporedienses describes a translatio from Troy to Pavia, not mainly politically, but for love of lovely women. … Read the post Versus Eporedienses playfully mythologized Pavia’s lovely women