From Dante to Dan Brown: how artists have portrayed the Divine Comedy
While Botticelli painted a mean Paradiso, Gustave Doré's dark drawings have been used to publicise Dan Brown's latest novel. We look at the art inspired by Dante's timeless text ...
View ArticleHarvard Classics Professor Will Explain Impact of the Poet Virgil at Baylor...
(Source: Baylor University) Nov. 13, 2013 Follow us on Twitter: @BaylorUMediaCom Media contact: Terry Goodrich, (254) 710-3321 WACO, Texas (Nov. 13, 2013) - Baylor's department of classics welcomes...
View ArticleDisproving Shakespeare on the greatest Roman
Only a few historical figures retain their renown in the relentless march of time, with one yardstick being widespread, continuing depictions across various cultures. Two of these are prominent figures...
View ArticleDisproving Shakespeare: The greatest Roman
Only a few historical figures retain their renown in the relentless march of time, with one yardstick being widespread, continuing depictions across various cultures. Two of these are prominent figures...
View ArticleHearing Sappho
“Because once I’ve learned it, I can die.” So said Solon the Wise, the great Athenian lawmaker of the sixth century B.C., when asked why he wanted to be taught a certain poem by Sappho. His extravagant...
View ArticleWere some dreams in ancient Roman poetry the precursor to film? (KU - The...
(Source: KU - The University of Kansas) LAWRENCE - Dreams in literature are most popularly portrayed as prophetic messages foretelling the future. In Virgil's "Aeneid," the fallen Trojan prince Hector...
View Article'Confronting the Classics,' by Mary Beard
Confronting the Classics Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations By Mary Beard (Liveright; 310 pages; $28.95) Did you hear the one about the emperor? If you lived in Augustus' Rome, chances are you...
View ArticleItalian archaeologists have grape expectations of their ancient wine
Scientists plant vineyards with the aim of making wine using techniques from classical Rome described by Virgil ...
View ArticleShakespeare, Dickens, Wren, Austen, Hardy, Turner: in praise of ... the English
Today is believed to be Shakespeare’s birthday, or so 18th-century biographers decided as his baptism took place on April 26th. April 23rd is most certainly the date upon which he died in 1616, aged...
View ArticleProf. James Bradley Wells Publishes Poetry Collection, Bicycle (DePauw...
(Source: DePauw University) December 10, 2013 Email James Bradley Wells, assistant professor of classical studies at DePauw University, is the author of Bicycle. The collection of poetry has been...
View ArticleTwo millennia on, Rome celebrates legacy of Emperor Augustus
ROME (Reuters) - Rome, a city that thinks in millennia, is going through a bout of "Augustus fever" to mark the 2,000th anniversary of the death of its first emperor, who left his mark on Rome and...
View Article10 Lesser-Known Ancient Roman Traditions
Michael Van Duisen February 13, 2014 Depending on your personal view, ancient Rome was responsible for giving the modern world a number of traditions, including various legal ideas, democracy, and some...
View ArticleHorace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet by Harry Eyres – review
Drawn to Horace by a mutual love of wine and poetry, Eyres celebrates the importance of poetry in an age that, like Horace's own, values money above all else ...
View ArticleMy hero: Virgil by Richard Jenkyns
Virgil is a hero for our times because he thought deeply about nation, community and identity – issues that puzzle us today ...
View ArticleBook Review: How to read a Latin poem
This book is subtitled "If You Can't Read Latin Yet", but is also of great interest to people like me - presumably the vast majority of those who ever studied the subject - who can't read Latin any...
View ArticleShape Changers
In the final line of "The Metamorphoses," the Roman poet Ovid proclaimed that because of the greatness of his epic, "I will live forever in my fame." Two thousand years later his confidence is...
View ArticleSeneca at the Court of Nero’
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero By James Romm Knopf 290 pages, $27.95 By Michael D. Langan NEWS BOOK REVIEWER As I read the publisher’s blurb for “ ‘Dying Every Day,’ a portrait of...
View ArticleSeth, Oscar, and Antiquity: The Fine (and Endangered) Art of Making Mockery
Seth MacFarlane's performance as host of the Oscars failed less because of racism, sexism, and homophobia than because he forgot what satire is and how it works. The same could be said of the...
View ArticleAdrian Hollis: Classics don and chess grandmaster
Once famously described in the press as one of this country's hidden chess assets, Adrian Hollis spent a long and distinguished academic career as a Classics Tutor and Fellow of Keble College, Oxford....
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