Virgil’s epic poem The Aeneid documents the founding of Rome by a Trojan hero. As with other ancient epics, our hero has to remain resolute in the face of significant divine hostility.

Much of the Aeneid is fuelled by this torturous conflict between private fulfillment and public responsibility, which was to become a staple of European literature and drama, showing up in ...

Aeneid readings by Susanna Braund, of Sarah Ruden translation. David Collins, of Cecil Day Lewis translation (both available as audiobooks commercially). The aria "Thy hand Belinda.." ...

Ours is a great age for classical translation. Just in the past dozen years, Virgil's "Aeneid" has been tackled by Robert Fagles, Stanley Lombardo, Frederick Ahl, Sarah Ruden and, now, David Ferry ...

The first translation by a woman renders the tenderness in Virgil’s war epic For more than 2,500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for, and about them, and passed ...

It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid.Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the Homeric ...

The Aeneid has been described by one scholar as “the single most influential literary work of European civilization for the better part of two millennia.” ...

I mean, I just want to tell you, this version of book six of "The Aeneid" is, like, a page-turner. SHAPIRO: You spoke with Seamus Heaney's daughter, who was the key figure in making this document ...

The Aeneid, an epic tale of immigration. Another classic piece of literature comes to the stage in Montreal. This time, it's The Aeneid, the Latin epic poem written by Virgil more than 2000 years ago.

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