La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Gladiator II.Gladiator II focuses on Paul Mescal's Hanno, also known as Lucius, returning to Rome as a gladiator while hiding his true identity. The movie ...
The last work Heaney finished before he died in 2013, this stirring translation of the best book in the Latin epic poem takes us into the underworld At school, in an era much closer to the classical ...