By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...
in Ovid’s story of the god Apollo fashioning himself the first laurel wreath. This crown of leaves, which supposedly signified his genius, is seen in the myth of Daphne, who turned into a laurel ...
Written storytelling about the muses started in the matriarchal period of prehistory, shifting to patriarchy in approximately 3,000BC, in Ovid’s story of the god Apollo fashioning himself the first ...
There, Lafayette was given a crown — a wreath of fresh cypress, laurel and oak — in the style ... at an elaborate reception and dinner in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern, where furniture ...
First Minister Michelle O’Neill will today lay a laurel wreath at Belfast City Hall as part of today’s Remembrance Sunday ...
Kennedy at his gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery during a wreath-laying ceremony. At the solemn event, four men had the honor of placing the wreath at the headstone: JFK’s grandson Jack ...
The chances that Federal Reserve officials will leave interest rates unchanged in November are mounting as the US economy powers ahead, according to Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Management.
“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere, a beloved sculpture from the ...
Families whose loved ones were abducted, murdered and secretly buried during the Troubles, have held a wreath laying ceremony for five remaining victims who still have not been found. Members of ...
In a Facebook post, Laurel Fire Company #1 reported that Fire Police Captain Tony Bortner has been found deceased. Fox 43 reported that the Lancaster County Coroner said Bortner's body had been ...