A Civilisation That Took Love Seriously In today’s hyper-digitized world of dating apps, seen-zones, and breadcrumbing, the ...

Ancient poets like Imru' al ... Unable to consummate his love for Afra because of her marriage, Urwa pours his heart out into poetry and becomes frail before giving up on life.

We have uncertain evidence for what lives were like after marriage. Some accounts estimate ... were crucial to the world of Greek poetry and myth. Ancient Greece had a whole genre of catalog ...

A tutor had considerable powers, and could force the woman out of one marriage and into another ... with the sex manuals of Elephantis. In Ancient Rome as in Victorian England, virtuous restraint ...

The best-known work of love poetry from the ancient world is the Song of Songs, a collection of erotic poetry dating back to the last centuries before the Common Era, known to the modern reader as a ...

A strong and healthy marriage is like a well-crafted ... echoing the resilience of love in the face of adversity. Her poetry encapsulates the journey of self-love, empowerment, and triumph over ...

Admittedly, this doesn’t work so well on a Hallmark card. Ancient ideas about love and marriage don’t exactly match the modern view. Romantic love was a later invention, but this doesn’t quite capture ...

Interhuman relationships go back to the early years of civilization, but there is one ritual known the world over that has a much fresher history: marriage. Most evidence suggests that the ...

Thanks in part to their connection to the life cycle, women in ancient Greece were both symbols of mortality and a force to humanize heroes. We have uncertain evidence for what lives were like after ...