Long before the Song of Songs in the Bible, a culture of love poetry flourished in the Near East and Egypt. The best-known work of love poetry from the ancient world is the Song of Songs, a collection ...

There are, in English, few ways to talk about sex without using vulgarities, euphemism, or jargon, which presents a problem for translators of ancient love poetry. Enter poet and scholar Economou, who ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Readings of ancient Tamil love poetry, translated into English by AK Ramanujan, and accompanied by ...

It is needless to say that fantasy is one of the world’s most popular genres of films and TV shows. Chinese drama makers take this to a whole new level. In C-dramas, there are several segments within ...

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A new discovery by a British archaeologist of Cambridge University reveals that there was a thriving pop culture in Ancient ...

The most conspicuous feature of this anthology of some 150 Sanskrit and 50 Prakrit love poems, How To Love in Sanskrit, is that it domesticates premodern poems into English in ways that offer ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While valentine notes today tend to stress caring and warmth, love letters from ancient Rome ...

Popular Chinese actor Xu Kai has been receiving praise from critics and viewers for his portrayal of Yue Jin Zhao in the ongoing fantasy drama Sword & Fairy 4. The anticipated drama premiered on ...