Seeking the Mothers in Ovid's "Heroides" explores Ovid's reconceptualization of the heroines' maternal experience. Rather than aligning them with the stereotypi

A young woman accidentally turns in a private story from her journal instead of an English assignment and becomes a best-selling author almost overnight.

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern percepti