Before Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for Private Families in 1845, she was known for crafting lush, sentimental verse.

Epic poetry has long captured the essence of the human experience – and an international conference in Athens is drawing global attention to the lasting impact of these ancient stories. CGTN's ...

Two professors in the Creative Writing Program turned to the seventh-century style of verse during the pandemic to tackle the ...

April is National Poetry Month. Celebrated across the U.S. and Canada, the observance spreads appreciation and awareness for ...

Today is April Fools’ Day, the annual holiday that celebrates pranking, hoaxes, and all manner of horseplay and tomfoolery.

The wellness destination Euphoria Retreat provides services to heal the body and mind in the ancient fortress town of medieval Mystras.

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

Nyx is the ancient Greek goddess who represents night ... Credit: Public Domain Nyx took on an even more important role in several fragmentary poems attributed to Orpheus. In these, Nyx, rather than ...

A groundbreaking study using advanced radar technology has revealed a vast and intricate underground structure beneath the Pyramids of Giza. Scientists Corrado Malanga from the University of Pisa and ...

The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...

He infuriated his old friend and critical champion Louis Untermeyer, a Jewish American who was doing a great deal to raise awareness of the Holocaust, by refusing to write poetry for the war effort.