ILOILO CITY, Philippines—What happens when an age-old Panay Bukidnon epic and its then 17-year-old storyteller meets an aggressive university theater group? The answer is “Tarangban (Cave),” a ...

Students and teachers from all over the Philippines gathered at the National Museum of Natural History last week to discuss the country's 'epikong-bayan.' All photos and videos by Mark Angeles It was ...

INTERNET giant Google on Monday celebrated the 230th birthday of Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar with a doodle of his literary masterpiece “Florante at Laura.” An epic poem that symbolizes Baltazar’s ...

The Mahabharata is an epic Sanskrit poem three times longer than the Bible. Its authors were proud of its encyclopedic scale: A preface boasts that "what is not found here cannot be found elsewhere." ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

A serendipitous deal between a history museum and a smuggler has provided new insight into one of the most famous stories ever told: "The Epic of Gilgamesh." The new finding, a clay tablet, reveals a ...

From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. In September 2023, the richest man in the world was daydreaming ...