Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

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Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

The Odyssey is an ancient epic poem traditionally attributed to the Greek poet Homer. The monumental epic is divided into 24 books. The majority of the epic unfolds around the Aegean Sea before ...

Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis brought an international aura to modern Greek poetry, by being a master at saying a lot with ...

Christopher Nolan’s next film project will be an adaptation of the ancient Greek epic poem The Odyssey. One of the most ...

The Odyssey, the ancient Greek epic poem ascribed to the poet Homer, charts the return home of its eponymous hero, Odysseus. For half the epic poem, we follow the hero as he struggles, sometimes ...