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 ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had ...

This mythology is enshrined in Rome’s epic poem, Virgil’s Aeneid (19 BC), written to curry favor from Rome’s first emperor, Julius Caesar’s adopted son, Octavian Augustus. Need a break?

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.