In a world flooded with cheap facsimiles of human art, will we still be able to rely on our own faculties for creation, or ...

I should like to do anything I could,” wrote Bailey, “to help Lt. Zeph Stewart, and if he is coming to England, I hope he ...

God of the sea, rivers, storms, earthquakes, bulls and horses, Poseidon occupies a large amount of ancient Greek mythology.

Relatively rare in Ireland, mistletoe (Viscum album, or “drualas” as it’s known as Gaeilge) is a hemiparasitic, non-native, ...

The figure of Aeneas of Troy first appears in the Homeric epics of Greek mythology, but he emerges as a central figure in ...

The ancient story of the Aeneid, by Latin poet Virgil, describes the story’s hero Aeneas encountering harpies on his quest to found Rome, saying: Maiden faces have these birds, foulest filth ...

The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from ...

One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son ...

Where did they come from?” Without realizing it, Musk had reinvented the plot of Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, whose protagonist sails from war-ravaged Troy to a land where his descendants would ...

That means The Aeneid would have been around for over 200 years before the co-reign of Geta and Caracalla (209 to 211 A.D.), and definitely would have been established enough for Lucius to have ...

The poem is an extract from Virgils famous epic The Aeneid, which immediately reveals to the Emperors that Lucius has an education in Latin - which wouldnt be expected of the slaves from Africa.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But I learned the joys of devotion, which I had failed to when I first experienced the Aeneidin Latin. It was on ...