This week we’ll look at a couple of major works by French composer Hector Berlioz, including the Symphonie Fantastique ...

Strabo, Geography 5.3.3 In Aeneid, Pallantium plays a crucial role as a modest prelude ... s death at the hands of Turnus is ...

Virgil’s Aeneid was inspired by Homer and served as the inspiration for Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this epic poem, and we follow the heroic survivor ...

Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual ...

Since time immemorial, poetry has entertained, motivated and inspired people. From love to politics and philosophy, poetry is a medium of communication that has withstood the test of time. Therefore, ...

“Despite its concision, this evocative and enigmatic poem by Najwan Darwish, one of Palestine’s—and the Arab world’s—most translated and most celebrated poets, reveals a central obsession of his work: ...

In addition to his work on college-level Latin commentaries, he is interested in how poets allude to their predecessors in order to create meaning in their own poems, and how writers (more generally) ...