Ovid’s Metamorphoses (AD 3-8) was not originally as controversial as his other poetic works. But as centuries have passed, its notoriety has increased. Recent calls to provide trigger-warnings to ...

One day in the thirteenth century, James I of Aragon, not only a great conqueror but a king famous for his powers of memory, made a revealing slip. Having convened an assembly of lords and clerics, he ...

The gods must be crazy. Also jealous, generous, arbitrary and sometimes even caring. They’re that and more in “Metamorphoses,” Mary Zimmerman’s masterly retelling of many of the Roman poet Ovid’s ...

In 2015, four Columbia University undergraduates published an op-ed in their student paper petitioning English professors to affix trigger warnings to Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The poem’s “vivid ...

Writer/director Christophe Honoré adapts Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” into a lyrical and philosophical film of the same title. Honoré sets the events in a contemporary environment, while ...

The cast of “Metamorphoses” makes frequent use of a pool at the center of the set, designed by Jason Simms. Evelyn Chen, top, is a New York City-based actor and dancer making her Berkshire Theatre ...

An enormous oblong pool—practically the only scenery in “Metamorphoses,” now at Pear Theatre in Mountain View—is so massive, it should be listed as the 11th cast member in this lyrical, occasionally ...