The Aeneid by Vergil is a Roman epic that follows the journey of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior who escapes the destruction of Troy and sets out to find a new homeland in Italy. Guided by fate and the gods, ...

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 ...

The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes of Troy. It was probably written down in Rome from 30-19 BC during the ...

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. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney died a ...

In Rome, around the year 400, a scribe and three painters created an illuminated manuscript of Virgil’s Aeneid, illustrating the the ancient hero Aeneas’ journey from Troy to Italy. The digitization ...

Ours is a great age for classical translation. Just in the past dozen years, Virgil's "Aeneid" has been tackled by Robert Fagles, Stanley Lombardo, Frederick Ahl, Sarah Ruden and, now, David Ferry, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But I learned the joys of devotion, which I had failed to when I first experienced the Aeneid in Latin. It was on ...

From its first shocking scene, Olivier Kemeid's The Aeneid will pull your trigger, hard – whoever you are, wherever you are from. A street preacher (a frenzied Mike Nadajewski) tears through a crowd ...

Since the end of the first century A.D., people have been playing a game with a certain book. In this game, you open the book to a random spot and place your finger on the text; the passage you select ...

New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas. By Talya Zax The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by the Trojan refugee ...