The Shahnama or Book of Kings is an epic poem written in 1010 and containing about 60,000 couplets ... We can also learn about the aesthetic and style of the art, another reflection on the court, ...

Steve Ely’s Eely (Longbarrow, £14.99) features a half-exhausting, half-thrilling epic about the life-cycle of an eel ...

We caught up with Iran-based artist Ali Banisadr ahead of his first solo exhibition in Shanghai at Perrotin's gallery outpost ...

How art thou cut down to the ground ... John Milton's "Paradise Lost" provides one of the most famous literary expansions of ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Now, to be fair, he’s a guy who has spent a lifetime with the art form, while most of us tend not to ... Buy at Amazon Yes, “The Waste Land” is Eliot’s best-known poem, and rightly so. It is epic, it ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

Grosvenor, National Geographic magazine’s founding editor, is credited with saying: A map is the greatest of all epic poems ... world around us through the art and science of mapmaking.

Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets covered in indecipherable writing held one of the world’s greatest treasures. Locked within the characters lay the Epic of ...

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 ...

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India. Ramcharitmanas is counted by many scholars to be among the world's greatest ...

Other museum exhibitions featuring Ross’s sculpture followed, including those at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angles ... in contemporary American epic poetry at UC Berkeley.