During 50 years teaching in the University of Chicago’s English and divinity departments, Michael J. Murrin focused his scholarship on genres of epic, romance and fantasy in Western literature. Murrin ...

Epic and its setting. "Dichotomy of power and authority in Mande Society and in the Epic of Sunjata" / John William Johnson -- History, one: content and genesis of the core epic. "History of the ...

New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas. By Talya Zax The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by the Trojan refugee ...

Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.

Omar Musa’s new book, Fierceland, ranges across five distinct geographies and covers a period of some 170 years. It is told from at least ten perspectives and encompasses prose, poetry and visual art.