IN the epic of Beowulf, our first great English epic, with almost countless references to the winter season, the sweet, antithetical season of summer is not once mentioned. This fact is significant, ...

Although the epic "Gilgamesh" dates back to before 1,700 B.C., it wasn't discovered by Westerners until 1844. A British surveyor on his way to Ceylon, passing through what is now Iraq, inadvertently ...

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A single story, a single poem, a single song: the individual work of art has the undeniable power of unity, the power to stun by its clarity of vision. I am moved by that power. At times I have ...

Evidence is mounting to suggest that William Shakespeare drew at least some of his inspiration from cannabis. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Material unearthed from William Shakespeare’s garden and ...