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 ...

As a classicist, I tend to be sceptical about modern adaptations of Homer’s epic poem, but Sydney Theatre Company’s recent ...

An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel ...

Sean O’Callaghan, Jared McNeill, Ery Nzaramba, Carole Karemera, and Toshi Tsuchitori in ‘Battlefield’ One of the production’s most effective elements is the music by Toshi Tsuchitori, who sits on ...

Jan 15, 2023 Jan 15, 2023 Updated Feb 19, 2024 It started simply enough. Some words in verse, a little story about a young, brave bee. It turned into days that began at 4:30 a.m. on an elliptical, ...

Lucknow: A three-day drama festival celebrating 75 years of poet Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s famous Hindi epic poem "Rashmirathi" began at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, drawing a strong turnout of literature ...

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. It’s nice out! It’s raining!

Gather round, readers, and I shall tell you a tale of childhood, chaos and candy. Of a book that revisits the wonder and whimsy of youth. A tale of ferocious 5-year olds, grumpy geezers and terrible ...

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 ...

Nobody actually knows who first coined the phrase “art inspires art.” It was probably a Cro-Magnon looking at his buddy’s charcoal mammoth drawing and thinking, “I should write an epic poem about that ...