Articles related to "Roman Poets"

Brief biography of ancient Roman poet Ovid, popular and prolific writer exiled in the Black Sea, and a contemporary of Virgil and Horace.

By turns anguished and satirical, the love elegists rejected poetic tradition and drew on their lives, their loves and their literary ambitions to write elegiac couplets.

The concept of "carpe diem" dates back to the classical Roman poet, Horace, circa 65 B. C., but Robert Frost's speaker begs to differ with the efficacy of that notion.

Brief biography of ancient Roman poet Horace, famous for his finest lyrical poems in Latin, and best known for Odes.

Latin love elegy relied on stock poems to deliver political satire and social commentary. Stock poems came from Greek lyric verse and from contemporary poetic forms.

Brief biography and works of Virgil, the greatest poet of Ancient Rome.

Long before Thomas More coined the word utopia - from the Greek for no place - in 1516, humans began to imagine the ideal way of being in the world and living together.

Brief biography of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius, best known for elegies of passionate love. His name is mentioned alongside Horace and Ovid.

From theme parks to real castles, Roman ruins to fine dining, Lake Garda has earned its bragging rights as Italy's favorite summer destination. Here are the ten best.

Brief biography of English poet and dramatist John Gay, best known for his ballad-opera satire, collaborated work with Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.

Question: What is the putto in Nicolas Poussin's painting "Aurora and Cephalus" doing? Answer: Showing the huntsman Cephalus a small portrait of his wife Procris.

Victor? Vance? Vladimir? Here's a collection of names for a little boy that start with the letter V.

Life and works of Dante Alighieri, whose story-poem Divina Commedia brought alive his imaginary worlds of Inferno, Purgatory and Heaven, and reunion with Beatrice.

Vegetarianism as a diet has been around for a long time, and many people you may have heard of are vegetarians or vegans. Here's a list of some of the more famous ones.

The title of Metamorphoses reflects the overarching theme of Ovid's poem. The poem contains numerous examples of various types of transformation.

Brief biography of Greek poet Sappho, one of the greatest poets of ancient Greece, with work recovered from nine books of poetry fragments.

The philosophy and work of Lucretius, Latin poet and great thinker, best-known for his one poem, De Rerum Natura or "On the Nature of Things."

John Donne's "The Flea" deploys puns, logic and a metaphysical conceit in an attempt to seduce the listener.

Each day of the calendar year has hosted important historical events and the births, and deaths, of many famous personages. September 21st is no exception.

Doomsday scenarios and prophesies of a pending apocalypse, said to be revealed in ancient texts, are often exaggerated and taken out of context.

Expressions such as "rare bird," "who watches the watchers?" and "bread and circuses" come from the Satires of Juvenal, the cynical last great poet of ancient Rome.

In 1767, 11 year-old Mozart composed Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K.35 and Apollo et Hyacinthus, K.38: Summary, character list, and other related information.

The troubadours were roaming musicians from the Middle Ages, often of noble birth who sang of the bittersweet love experienced by the 'courtly lover'.

Tunis is easy to explore. It is more like a large, easily negotiable town than a major city. A good base for visiting some of Tunisia's main attractions.

In ancient times certain women were thought to possess the 'god given' power of prophecy; they were known as the 'Sibyls'.