Martha's Quarterly, Issue 39, Spring 2026
Martha's Quarterly, Issue 39, Spring 2026
I am, Therefore I am
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About the Contributors:
Publius Ovidius Naso, known as Ovid, was born in Sulmo, Italy in 43 BCE. Considered one of the most influential poets in the Western literary tradition, Ovid wrote many works including his most famous and revered poem Metamorphoses, published around 8 BCE, It is regarded as a masterpiece alongside the works of Homer and Virgil.
Zhuang Zhou (369 BCE-286 BCE) was the most significant of China’s early interpreters of Daoism, and his eponymous work, the Zhuangzi, is considered to be one of the definitive texts of Daoism.
Major General D.M. Strong was a British Army officer who, in his later life, was recognized as a scholar of Pali and Buddhism. He was a published author who translated the Udana, or The Solemn Utterances of the Buddha (1902) and wrote The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism: A Symphony.









