From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their ...

Born a peasant, Virgil was raised on a farm before being educated in the Greek and Roman authors. His rural upbringing influenced all his poetry, especially his earlier work, like the “Eclogues”.

So I am escaping to Italy, where — in my head — it is always summer, every bike is a gleaming Colnago Master, and one can ...

In myth number two, Trojan hero Aeneas founds the city after fleeing the destruction of Troy – a narrative pushed by Roman poet Virgil in his magnum opus, The Aeneid. Both these stories were ...

As I noted some years ago, I suspect the name Felix Qui has been borrowed from words by the Roman poet Virgil, which read "Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" (translation: "Fortunate ...

ASIMOV stands for Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values, a clunky title intended as an homage to ...

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

One of the oldest works is a painting titled Women with Goats by Ian Fairweather, one of 12 paintings at TarraWarra Museum of ...

In 1940, C. Day Lewis found similar contemporary relevance in Virgil’s Georgics – another example of a Roman poet reacting to the chaos and destruction of war – by arguing, through the metaphor of ...

In Book 1, students meet the gods and heroes of the Roman world, introduced through stories from ... Cicero and Caesar document the Civil War through letters and histories. The epic poetry of Ovid and ...

It’s also an extremely historic city—the Roman poet Virgil was born near the city, which was first established in 2000 B.C. It’s also mentioned in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” as the place where ...