Callisto Resources

Galileo thought it was worth a look, and so do we. Check out all you need to know about Callisto, the moon of Jupiter.

In Xena, there's an evil warrior woman named Callisto who constantly torments everybody's favorite warrior princess. She may not be anything like the Callisto of Greek myth, but we sure do like her name.

Callisto does some damage in a bunch of the different incarnations of the X-Men franchise. Of course, instead of the pretty nymph of mythology, she's a bitter, blade-wielding mutant.

Somehow sock puppets make everything better.

Click here to listen to Ovid's take of the tale in his Metamorphoses. It's in English, we promise.

You can also listen to famous poet Ted Hughes taking a stab at it.

In this children's book, a bear-mom and her bear-son become stars. Sound familiar?