For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

WHO’D have thought? A 300-year-old opera suddenly becomes avant-garde thanks to some impressive acrobatics – and a bit of ...

Rooted in classical mythology, referencing two epics (a minor character in Homer’s Iliad, Aeneas plays protagonist in Virgil’s Aeneid ... epic poetry and visual art to name some, facilitated ...

Bread is an amazing base or accompaniment for so many foods. Even stale bread can be used in a surprising number of dishes. You can also use bread as your dinnerware. Bread bowls are hollowed out ...

Milton’s Paradise Lost is one of the four great epic works of the Western world, vying with Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s ... desires to leave a great epic poem behind him, one that would stand ...

A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

At the 9/11 memorial in New York, a line from Virgil’s Aeneid, wrought in iron from the debris of the collapsed towers, spanning 60 feet: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Moving, ...