The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net ...

Italian officials including Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli and director if Italian museums Massimo Osanna on Thursday ...

was greeted by “public mourning,” and in the decades afterward he was never far from the minds of Roman writers, starting with the Golden Age poets who immediately followed him: Virgil ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.

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The crown jewel of the mosaic and museum collection is the only known mosaic of the Roman poet Virgil. Dating to the third century, the mosaic was discovered in a villa at Sousse and depicts the ...

Why the name? Medieval legend had it that Roman poet Virgil placed a magical siren’s egg within the castle’s foundations to protect it — and Naples — from misfortune. Another must-do is ...