I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward from the ...

As the trailer for The Odyssey moves through sweeping shots of desert, forest, sea and battlefield, one moment quietly takes ...

It’s not too far-fetched to believe that God has shown forth his grace to Socrates and to Alfred, to you and to me, all through women in white.

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In Rome, around the year 400, a scribe and three painters created an illuminated manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, illustrating the the ancient hero Aeneas’ journey from Troy to Italy. The digitization ...

Some words feel alive, even when they are describing the dead. “Wraith” is one of those words. This short word is like a whisper yet carries power and can describe anything from a ghost of a person, ...

The Trojan War is the cardinal point in both British and European history. According to the British chronicles their ancient kings and princes are descended from Brutus the Trojan, the great grandson ...

Born on October 15th, 70 BC, Publius Virgilius Maro or Virgil, would be regarded as one of Rome’s greatest poets. Commissioned under Augustus, his incomplete and finest work, the Aeneid, would be ...

For its first half, “Heart the Lover,” the new novel by Lily King, is a wry, witty, exquisitely evocative campus tale, a fevered fiction of a youthful love triangle, and a reflection, like King’s 2020 ...

Roman marble relief from 140-150 C.E., showing the Trojan Aeneas and his son Ascanius landing on the shores of Italy. The sow is telling him to found the city of Rome. Credit: iStock “I will be the ...

In a tour de force solo performance, Natalie takes on Virgil's great poem in 28 minutes... and wins. The hero Prince Aeneas leads the survivors of Troy to found a new city in Italy. Show more In a ...