Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia. Credit: Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. If you scratch beneath that polished and impressively talented Roman surface, ...

In reality, this was already a widely-held belief by the time Virgil wrote the Aeneid. In fact, it long predates the first century BCE. We see it at least as early as the fifth century BCE. During ...

These are the tales told by the epic poems “The Odyssey” by Homer, and “The Aeneid” by Virgil. Though both were considered factual accounts of actual events in ancient times, we consider these tales ...

Bình is also working on a novel titled “Historian on the Sand” and the first Vietnamese translations of Virgil’s “Aeneid.” Presented by Friends of Little Sài Gòn, this series of ...

From The Duke of Northumberland's period date the newly rediscovered murals in the Staircase Hall, painted by the French artist Louis Laguerre, which were covered over in 1760.They illustrate scenes ...

Sarah Ruden’s most recent books are the extensively revised second edition of her Aeneid translation and her new translation of the Gospels. Goddess, sing rage . . . She herself was ...