The Gun Alley Murder was the horrific rape and murder of 12 year old Alma Tirtschke, who was found in Gun Alley on December 30, 1921. Unfortunately Gun Alley was built-over and the equivalent location to where present-day Gun Alley would have been is…

On the morning of December 8 1987, Frank Vitkovic entered the Australia Post offices on Queen Street and began shooting people at random, killing 8 people. The injured office workers managed to ambush Vitkovic, stashing his shotgun in an office…

Notorious Joseph Leslie ‘Squizzy’ Taylor was one of Melbourne’s key underworld figures between 1918 until his death in the infamous gunfight of 1927. Squizzy started his life of crime by pickpocketing and small robberies, but was also associated with…

The strangled body of Gladys Hosking, 40, was found outside Melbourne University on May 18, 1942.  She was the last victim of serial killer Eddie Leonski ‘The Singing Strangler’, who was an American solider stationed in Melbourne during WWII. Gladys,…

Welcome to Juddy Roller studios, this space is owned by Artist Shaun Hossack with the ambition of renovating a disused garage into a functional café and an artistic hub. It is also developed in a hope that art enthusiasts and artists could have…

One of the most significant themes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ironically, is what does not change. There are many instances within the poem of the transmogrified victim facing the consequences of their metamorphosis whilst still possessed of their…

The transformations that occur in the Metamorphoses do not always involve a move between species, or from biotic to abiotic. The switching of genders is also an occasional occurrence, and one that is perhaps best explained by Roman literary…

We have now arrived at the eponymous, overriding motif of the Metamorphoses: the metamorphosis itself. These transformations occur for a wide variety of reasons, and can be either self-effected, or brought about by some divine intervention. They may…

The undeniably frequent presence of rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses remains a deeply problematic theme outside of its historical context. Nonetheless, its prevalence renders it impossible to ignore. The same might equally be said of the depiction of the…

Madness plays a key motivational role throughout the Metamorphoses. Temporary psychosis is utilised by the poet to excuse many of the most heinous crimes, from Philomela and Procne’s vengeful infanticide to Hades’ abduction of the innocent…