Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music, Bangalore ...

That comes from Virgil’s Eclogues, the great Latin poet, when he was talking about the birth of a new Roman generation—in particular descendants of Augustus—that would change Rome forever.

Classicists will look towards narrative epics by the likes of Homer, Virgil and Dante ... and that’s what a poet is doing: loosening the words.” Though we’re taught as schoolchildren ...

February usually has 28 days due to a combination of historical, astronomical, and cultural factors.

Her Roman detractors used it against her ... In the version of the battle given by Virgil, the great epic poet of Augustan Rome, Antony’s army and Antony’s fleet were made up of: Barbarian ...

According to the ancient Roman poet Virgil in his Eclogue around 37 B.C. “amor vincit omnia” or in English, “love conquers all”. But does it? What if that love is at a time and place where ...

Roman poet Virgil declared Lake Como “our greatest lake”, a pronouncement that remains true two thousand years later. Lush green hillsides plunge into the sparkling, emeraldy, cobalt water, and ...