IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...
When Prof. Robyn Schiff sat at the information desk at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, she felt as if, “I was living my life at the center of the world.” Nearly 30 years later, Schiff ...
The weekend's boxoffice crown should be copped by an animated feature based on an Old English epic poem. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press The weekend’s boxoffice crown should be copped by an ...
Many ancient texts are the work of multiple authors that have been mashed up into one story over the course of generations. Works like The Iliad and The Odyssey ascribed to the blind poet Homer are ...
When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...
Using a technique that digitally enhances his actors on-screen, director Robert Zemeckis takes the famous English epic poem and makes it an action-adventure film. Ray Winstone (slimmed down by ...
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