The Politics of the Myth: The Quest for the Double and Death

Jan 17th 2026 10:25am EST

John W. Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, oil on canvas (1903) This brief essay, structured in three short sections, aims to show how mythical figures from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses can help us better grasp our distorted political self-perception. There is no scholarly consensus on a definition of the ancient Greek term μῦθος (“mythos”). Scholars […]

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