From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

Motherhood is also present in the Metamorphoses in more subtle ways. = Alison Sharrock, a professor of Latin, has pointed out ...

We Texans–even the most jaded and liberal of us–are awful proud of our big, wide-open state. We all learned Texas history as schoolchildren, and even my Latino friends had to choke down tales of Davy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Political theory and strategy that works for American humans The novel is dead. But the epic poem -- book-length fiction, and its ...

As Toby Barlow points out, epic poetry all but died out some time ago, and there hasn't been any hint that it's coming back. So for someone who works in advertising (he handles the Ford Motor Co.

"Here's what not to do when a bird shits on you." Samuel Taylor Coleridge almost certainly never imagined such an introduction to his epic poem The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, yet this is how Bruce ...

Tracen Wassily wasn’t initially sold on the hefty “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a poem that dates back roughly 4,000 years. “At first, I didn’t like it,” said Wassily, who is 16 years old. “But what I wrote ...

Srimad Ramayana was scripted by the harbinger poet Valmiki Maharshi, extolling the lives of Sree Raman, the acharya of Thredayugam, and his consort Sita Devi. This epic poem runs through veins of ...

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It's been almost 10 years since the last episode of 'Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai' got aired and now the popular epic sitcome is returning as a web series.The sitcom will now take a seven-year leap with the ...