Dido and Aeneas opera, staged at the Bangalore International Centre, blends Western music with Indian aesthetics, to showcase ...

A corollary for current events to The New Mexican’s motto magna est veritas et praevalebit (great is truth and it will prevail) is the adage from Virgil’s Aeneid: Facilis descensus averno ...

Born and raised in Michigan, Isaac Hamlet graduated from the University of Iowa majoring in English and minoring in Latin and ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Mine is, naturally, a bed of godly proportions. This is despite the fact that I have not grown a millimeter since I was a ...

Graphic novelist and artist Gareth Hinds read “The Odyssey” for the first time in high school. His teacher could tell that he enjoyed it then, […] ...

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

King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...

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

From The Duke of Northumberland's period date the newly rediscovered murals in the Staircase Hall, painted by the French artist Louis Laguerre, which were covered over in 1760.They illustrate scenes ...

In the Aeneid, written in the first century BC by Virgil, Prince Aeneas of Troy is described as sailing to Italy and visiting the region where Rome would later be established. But when he arrived in ...

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, ...