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Poetry and song were originally the same art. In the ancient world, all poetry was sung or chanted. Indeed, it was often ...

For a lot of people, reading “The Iliad,” an ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, would be a weeks or even months-long endeavor.

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The story of Apollo and Daphne was written around the year zero by Roman poet Ovid in the Metamorphoses. Ovid was a trainee lawyer and student of rhetoric. In the story, a woman named Daphne becomes a ...