Why do we no longer turn to epic poetry to portray the majesty and tragedy of history? Michael Auslin, writer and editor, ...

In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

Milton’s epic recounts a revolt against Heaven. Readers from Thomas Jefferson to Malcolm X have drawn their own lessons from ...

Christopher Nolan is working on an adaption of Homer's epic poem "Odyssey" though it is not yet known how he plans to adapt ...

Why do we no longer turn to epic poetry to portray the majesty and tragedy of history? Michael Auslin, writer and editor, explained, “No art form – and History is ultimately an art – can portray the ...

Poetry reading at Inglewood Junior School, Carlisle, in 1996 (Image: The Cumberland News Photographic) Another ancient poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin, dating from around 2000 BC, is considered the ...

AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia flourished, and one of its many versatile and precocious achievements was Gilgamesh, our first recognisable ...

While it may seem like an offbeat choice for Christopher Nolan to be adapting Homer's The Odyssey into a movie, it actually ...

Poetry, like most art, is subjective, and people’s tastes run as wide as the collections on offer. Whether young or old, well ...

Friendship with a truly strange creature, plus Shark Girl’s conservation and a dinosaur’s pursuit of poetry: columnist ...

Jessy Ardern’s name is at the top of the script for Prophecy, but the playwright doesn’t recall where she was when she put it ...