Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice, which got its first Dallas Opera performance Friday night at the ...

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 ...

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

ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the ...

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

About 2,000 years ago, a Roman named Publius Vergilius Maro changed his career from law to writing. Commonly referred to as Virgil, his writings had a lasting ... Mr. Goldblatt is an author and ...

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.

The daunting scale of everything is hard to absorb, and the burden of what's transpired might feel overwhelming. But amid the ...

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 ...

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

In his famous Aeneid, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC) identifies Charon with both rivers. According to Greek mythology, there are actually five rivers that flow within the realm of Hades — Styx, ...