Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Like so many of us, Caleb Femi spent the depths of the COVID lockdown remembering times when his body was allowed to be freer ...

Poet introduces her first children’s book, “Fumious Rex: The Outcast Cat,” with her sons Bly and Rowan Pope, professional ...

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In Lightscape at the Marciano Art Foundation and his Regen Projects exhibition, polymedia artist Doug Aitken elucidates how ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

BOWLING WITH CORPSES & OTHER STRANGE TALES FROM LANDS UNKNOWN, by Mike Mignola I’m sure the artist Mike Mignola has, at some point, drawn a straight line, but it wasn’t recently. In “Bowling With ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

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

That comes from Virgil’s Eclogues, the great Latin poet, when he was talking about the birth of a new Roman generation—in particular descendants of Augustus—that would change Rome forever.