Musing Through Classical Mythology

A bronze statue of Mercury atop a fountain in the rotunda of the National Gallery of Art, after Giovanni Bologna. Image Saxon Henry.

As I was strolling through the National Gallery of Art a week and a half ago, marveling at the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses involved in their adventures around nearly every corner, I was reminded of a wonderful summer I once spent immersed in mythology. The names forming the cast of characters came rushing back as I spotted a marble sculpture of a Nereid...