Apuleius

Apuleius

male, deceased (180)
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus, Classical Latin novelist, Silver Age Latin author, Numidia, ancient roman, roman empire…Metamorphoses
Lucius Apuleius Platonicus (c. AD 123/125-c. AD 180), an utterly Romanized Berber who described himself as "half-Numidian half-Gaetulian", is...
Mary Zimmerman

Mary Zimmerman

female
Northwestern University, Metamorphoses, The Arabian Nights, MacArthur Fellowship, Performance Studies, Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All
Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She...
Ovid

Ovid

male, deceased (17)
anapest, iambic trimeter, Italian, cosmos, Golden Age Latin author, elegiac couplets…Metamorphoses
Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid who wrote on topics of love, abandoned women and mythological...
Arthur Golding

Arthur Golding

male, deceased (1605)
tudor, Metamorphoses, calvin, Translator, the strand, British
Arthur Golding (c. 1536 - c. 1605) was an English translator. He was the son of Jonathon Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halsted, Essex, an auditor...
Antoninus Liberalis

Antoninus Liberalis

male
greek, Shapeshifting, grammar, Metamorphoses, Latin writer, Lucius Apuleius
Antoninus Liberalis, Greek grammarian, probably flourished about AD 150. His only surviving work is the Μεταμορφωσεων Συναγωγη, a c...

Lycaon

male
wolf, Meliboea, Pelasgians, Pelasgian, Nyctimus, Oenotrus…Metamorphoses
Lycaon, in Greek mythology, was the son of Pelasgus and Meliboea, father of Oenotrus and the mythical first king of Arcadia. He was the father of...

Horace Gregory

male, deceased (1982)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, periodicals, Sarah Lawrence College, poet, New York Times, University of Wisconsin…Metamorphoses
Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898-March 11, 1982) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college...
George Sandys

George Sandys

male, deceased (1644)
Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford, Aeneid, charles, old testament, geography, Archbishop of York…Metamorphoses
George Sandys (March 2, 1578 - March 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York....

Samuel Garth

male, deceased (1719)
poet, Doctor, British, physician, addison, westminster abbey…Metamorphoses
Sir Samuel Garth (1661 - 1719) was an English physician and poet. Garth was born in Bolam in County Durham and educated at the University of...
Patricia Barber

Patricia Barber

female, 53 years old
Post-bop singer, Contemporary jazz singer, Contemporary jazz pianist, Post-bop pianist, cabaret singer, Women in jazz…Metamorphoses
Patricia Barber, born in 1956, is an American jazz singer, pianist, and bandleader. She was born in Chicago to parents who were both professional...