Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who assembled a suitably heroic cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt, Peter O’Toole, Brian ...

For example, scientists reconstructed the former composition of fauna in Greece with the aid of descriptions from ancient epic poems .

CCP is giving most of the fan blood to the Blood Bank of Iceland, while keeping some to write a calfskin illuminated manuscript about EVE Online.

Now that the weather is warming, it's time for the epic-length poems to be found/'Cause it's National Poetry Month, just as sure as there's piled-up snow on the ground.

Perhaps it could even re-instill a sense of awe, humility, and gratitude that might dampen the flames of civil discord.” In Bitter Creek, Teow Lim Goh presents an outstanding engrossing example of the ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf The greatest poetry books ever written I remember the first time I picked up ...

The politics and poetry of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa: How an ancient epic shapes Indian culture and enforces inequality in modern India Rajiv Thind Posted 30 Jan 2025, updated 2 Feb 2025 ...

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

Musk is not alone in sensing this: Two other prominent right-wing thinkers have used epic poetry in their attacks on liberal democracy. What dark future does it help them to articulate?

Universal studios has revealed that the British-American filmmaker’s new film is The Odyssey, an adaptation of the epic poem composed by Homer around the 8th century BCE.

Reading poetry is sometimes presented like homework, but it can be as easy to understand as a trip to Disneyland, Matt Mason writes.