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The Metamorphoses was the most famous work of the Roman poet Ovid. The Metamorphoses is Ovid's attempt to tell the history of the world, from Creation to the deification of the murdered Roman Emperor Julius Caesar.  The Metamorphoses retells 250 myths. In his retellings, Ovid often departs from traditional accounts. Yet his poem was the … Continue reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the Tale of Narcissus and Echo

The discipline of psychology emerged from the discipline of philosophy. In the late 19th century, the British philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that the human mind could be studied scientifically. This idea gained credence when European neurologists began using the clinicopathological method. This meant comparing the problems that a person had had during his or … Continue reading William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Miller's Tale is one of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. These tales were supposedly stories that a group of pilgrims told each other as they were on their way from London to Canterbury Cathedral, to visit the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket (also known as Thomas à Becket). Nevertheless, some of the tales told by … Continue reading Geoffrey Chaucer: The Knight’s Tale and the Miller’s Tale