Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.

The poet Virgil observed, “So vast a toil it was to found the State of Rome.” In ancient times, the city of Rome astonished everyone. The Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus ...

Although the shores are equipped with several beach clubs, a wild swim is the way to go. Lake Como’s best public beaches ...

A question beautifully addressed in Richard Hough’s Firebird which is receiving its world premiere at the King’s Head Theatre ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Caduceus — that's the name of Hermes' rod, a staff with two intertwined snakes and wings, which the god, known as Mercury in ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

“I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was ... Homer’s and Virgil’s materials to create new epics written to advance their own ambitious nations. And later emperors used ancient epics to ...

Imperial Rome can still give lessons in social mobility. WHY did the ancient program of the Liberal ... when driven by Milton to Virgil or by Chaucer to Ovid in later days, to track out with ...