Amaryllis flowers have been prominent in floral symbolism since Greek mythological times. These exotic flowers commonly carry ...

To understand where the tradition of Christmas wreaths began, we need to go back to Greek mythology to two characters in ...

Hecker’s work points back to Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1876 poem L’Après-midi d’un faune—and its subsequent musical and ...

Today the symbol may seem as American as, well, Thanksgiving—but it didn’t start out ... His wife (and sister) Rhea saves ...

December birth flowers have striking beauty and distinctive symbolism. Unwrap the unique meanings of December flowers ...

88.9 x 138.4 cm. (35 x 54.5 in.) ...

Gladiator II is now in cinemas, and Ridley Scott’s epic, a sequel to his 2000 Oscar winner, has yielded much comment about its homoeroticism. Certainly there is a strong sense of feminisation. Take ...

In 2006, The Poetry Center launched its first annual Poetry Prize for High School Girls in Massachusetts (open to sophomores and juniors); since then, our contest has expanded into the other New ...

All that remained of her was the Heart of Kandrakar. In the comic book, the dragons are freed by the nymph Xin Jing (meaning 'Heart of Crystal' in Chinese), who absorbed their dragon essence and ...

Here’s how it works. The world's oldest known system of writing was influenced by symbols used for trade — engravings found on cylinders used in the exchange of farming produce and textiles ...