America’s founding generation absorbed Virgil (70–19 b.c.) and the lessons of Rome. They admired the story of Aeneas, the man who led a tiny group of intrepid refugees across the sea to create ...

The mythical Romulus and Remus may get the credit, but Rome's archaeology reveals that local tribes established the ancient kingdom. HISTORY MAGAZINE Not in a day, and not by twins.

Aeneas. Once upon a time, the goddess of love Venus seduced Anchises, a minor prince of Troy and second cousin once removed to King Priam. Nine months later, she presented him with the infant ...

V irgil’s Aeneid became the canonical myth of Rome’s origins as soon as it was published, following the poet’s death, in 19 BCE. When Troy fell to the Greeks, the story goes, Aeneas, the son of Venus ...

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a person who is driven by rage—which is the first word of the founding tome of ...

If readers of an earlier era saw the Aeneid as an inspiring advertisement for the onward march of Rome’s many descendants, from the Holy Roman Empire to the British one, scholars now see in it a ...

En route to Rome, Aeneas is sidelined by their ecstatic love affair, with tragic results. Written when the composer was just 30 years old, ...