For any number of reasons, the lack of an excellent modern translation into English being chief among them, Virgil`s ”Aeneid” is a work with which few readers are familiar today. Even those earnest ...

This paper examines a relationship of systematic and meaningful imitation, between a section in Vergil, Aeneid 6 (719-853) and the conclusion of Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3 (1024-94). Vergil engages ...

Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a clear, vibrant American English, her ...

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 ...