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 Augustus began.

Ando, Clifford. 2014. Postscript: Cities, Citizenship and the Work of Empire. In The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and ...

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 ...

A recent philological study of an ancient Roman satirical poem, the Sulpiciae Conquestio (The Complaint of Sulpicia), reveals ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...

This article examines Boethius' use of Virgil Aeneid 2.604-606 at Cons. 1.2.6. In both passages divine guides wipe away a "cloud" obscuring the vision of the protagonists in the two works. Boethius' ...

Although their geopolitical foundations are rarely foregrounded, the founding narratives of Western culture contain crises of tribal warfare, invasion, and migrant dispersal that remain jarringly ...

The three-inch-long pottery shard contains only parts of a passage from Virgil's Georgics. University of Cordoba Long before the modern-day novelty mug made its way into bookstores and gift shops, an ...