Ovid’s imaginative leaps licensed later writers – from Chaucer to Kafka – to try out their own. And the lineage runs backwards too, as Ovid was drawing on transformations in Homer’s work. Classicist ...

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 ...