For example, I’ll be pouring Planeta Didacus from Sicily and Ovid Hexameter from Napa Valley.” Frankly it is a can’t-miss seminar. And I always look forward to attending the presentations hosted by ...

His rendering of the epic into its authentic metre, the dactylic hexameter (a six-beat line, vocalised in two clusters or asymmetrical half-lines) has been keenly anticipated; in his memoir-cum ...

The JFK files, released on 18 March 2025, are a treasure trove of information for researchers, journalists, book writers, historians, and anyone interested in the JFK case. However, the sheer volume ...

Clocking in at 12,109 lines of dactylic hexameter, the lengthy poem will present a new challenge for Nolan. Known for directing puzzling movies centering around complex characters, some might worry ...

It all (and I do mean almost all) started with that elusive figure Homer and the composition of 12,109 lines of hexameter verse from which we’re still drawing inspiration, and can find the ...

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Sámi writer Linnea Axelsson’s AEdnan uses the ancient form to critique Sweden’s historical mistreatment of its indigenous people. Anna Nordlander, Sami Woman and her Child (1870s). Like the ...

Eight different poetic meters determined the rhythm at which a poem would be performed. For instance, Homer’s Iliad opens with a line in dactylic hexameter: “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles, ...

Elegiac couplets (a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter), for instance, a meter associated with “inscriptions and epitaphs,” “love elegy” and “Greek and Latin epigram ...

Marcus Folch joined the Columbia Classics Department in 2009, after receiving his B.A. in Classics from Cornell University in 2000 and his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 2006. From 2007 ...

Welcome back. With the world in great shape and no potentially life-changing national decisions looming on the horizon, I thought we could use this stress-free stretch of placidity to answer an es ...