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Dioscuri is the name given to the two twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus (Dios), born of his union with Leda. They had Helena and Clytaemnestra as sisters. But as Leda was the wife of mortal Tyndareus, the king of Lacedaemon, her children were also called Tindaris. And because Leda had met the same night with Zeus, who had taken the appearance of a swan, and with her husband, the two pairs of twins who came out of her eggs were assigned both to Zeus and to Tyndareus: Helena and Pollux - born with Zeus ...

The Metamorphoses, the great masterpiece of Ovid, has been an infinite source of inspiration for artists all over the word. We are talking about the book that has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible. For ages, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its magnificent stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid’s work but to one another’s in their representations. From Mantegna to Piero di Cosimo, Botticelli, Titian through Pablo Picasso – and here we name only a f...