The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown and Company, 1929), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by a German World ...

"It's used by [Roman orator] Cicero and [Roman poet] Horace, and that was even before the time of Christ," Lo Bello said. "It's a very old word, antedates the Catholic religion." ...

It is cliché to say, "You only live once," but the power of living life intentionally and boldly in the moment is something ...

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

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

William Horace Clifton (Bill), 90, went home to be with his Lord on May 2, 2025. Born January 8, 1935, in Walterboro, SC, he was married for 60 years to the late Garnell Ruff Clifton. Bill ...

America’s leading Catholic poet offers a stunning new verse translation of a play once read by Dante and forgotten by most — ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...