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.

Because the Aeneid’s instantaneous status as a classic made its style a standard, it’s difficult to appreciate how innovative and idiosyncratic Virgil’s poetry once felt.

The history of the “Aeneid,” Bartsch said, shows how great the range of interpretations can be: Early Christian medievalists “chose to read the poem allegorically as a bildungsroman of the ...

The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land ...

The Aeneid is the poem that Virgil created. It traces the journey of Aeneas from his escape from Troy to his arrival in Italy where Rome would one day flourish.

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 is a famous poem by the ancient Roman poet Virgil, who is often credited as the father of Latin poetry. He lived during the Augustan period, roughly 250 years before Gladiator 2 takes ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poetry critic Tess Taylor about the publication of the sixth book of The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney and published posthumously.

When I was reading Virgil’s Aeneid for the first time, in translation, for a Great Books course at the University of Michigan, I heard in lectures what I believe are the usual criticisms. The epic ...