Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the Greek pantheon.

By Alison Habens In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around 850BC) invoked ...

When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its ...

For the fifth consecutive election, Democrats swept Alexandria’s races for City Council and mayor. It’s been more than 15 years since the city has elected a Republican or independent candidate, three ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

CEDAR FALLS -- The Final Thursday Reading series will host the University of Northern Iowa's Brooke Wonders and students in ...

Twelve makes up the content of a curricular course and, more significantly, it is the apostolic number. Since Bloom’s Pentecostal encounter in the Bronx public library and his first book (on Shelley), ...