Gorgeous pageants, tempestuous rejoicings in every city of the land, honored Italy’s No. 1 Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro) on the 2,000th anniversary of his birth (TIME, May 5). Last week Italy faced ...

The best part of Aw, Hell is the walking tour at the beginning—it's not a long trek, though it is heavy on rules: No sinning. No laughing. No touching, but the monsters can touch you. Ancient Roman ...

ON POETRY & POETS (308 pp.)—T. S. Eliof—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.50). When Poet T. S. Eliot married his secretary early this year, the news brought with it a shock of recognition: the austere ...

When I was 12, I fell in love with the Broadway musical, "Oliver!" I was a lonely little girl, so my favorite song was, “Where is Love?” You see, the story is about a young orphaned boy, named Oliver, ...

Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a clear, vibrant American English, her ...

You gotta admit: the Rogue Theatre has spheres. Orbs. Globes. OK, balls. In a scant decade of existence, the brave (and sometimes, we have to say, a bit self-conscious) entity has tackled Boccaccio, ...

The irregular ebb and flow of John Gay's finances led him to identify, awkwardly, with those forced to earn a living by peddling goods. Trivia, or: The Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) puts ...