Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

In Lightscape at the Marciano Art Foundation and his Regen Projects exhibition, polymedia artist Doug Aitken elucidates how ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

Today, the main sources for the myth are Virgil’s Georgics and Ovid’s Metamorphoses ... which became famed for its poets. The muses found his head and buried it in a cave, over which the ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Thus the Greek poetry of the great age was not merely inspired ... The development of Latin into the language of Cicero and Virgil was gradually and laboriously accomplished under the constant ...

Caduceus — that's the name of Hermes' rod, a staff with two intertwined snakes and wings, which the god, known as Mercury in ...

Since then, many poets have recycled Homer’s and Virgil’s materials to create new ... reading it because her daughter was interested in Greek myth. Among her husband’s associates (Thiel ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...