Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young ...

Virgil’s Aeneid was inspired by Homer and served as the inspiration for Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this epic poem, and we follow the ...

Back to the poem: the light of God annihilates the pilgrim ... The Sibyl’s oracles refers to a moment in the Aeneid, in which Aeneas goes to the Sibyl’s cave to find out about his future ...

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil ... Twelve books of the poem occupied him for about ten years ...

It asks when, where, why, by whom, for whom and how Virgil's poems were translated into a range of languages. Chronologically it spans the eleventh- and twelfth-century adaptations of the Aeneid down ...

even boys sit upright in their desks reciting Aeneid, a Latin epic poem written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. A teacher’s voice is heard evaluating each student on his recitation. One of the ...

Abdullaev became a jobless poet who lived in modesty verging on poverty, but frequently travelled to literary festivals in the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. Like hundreds of ...

One of the earliest references was by the Roman poet Virgil, who described "thin wheaten cakes as platters for their meal" in his epic poem Aeneid. The characters top their "wheaten cakes" with ...

Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid Joseph D Reed Virgil's Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in ...

Politics have always been divisive, but 2020 transformed the understanding of what a political discussion should be as politically active adults began to act like kids. This reactionary strategy began ...