This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young ...

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

Explore Ursula K. Le Guin's captivating books, where imaginative stories, deep characters, and powerful themes create ...

Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to the site of the future Rome, the story of Hercules and Cacus, the episode between ...

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

Fear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, everyone ...

Troy, the city at the heart of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid, is one of the most legendary sites of classical Greek ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a ...

Bartsch is a classics professor at the University of Chicago, and has degrees from Princeton, Harvard, and UC Berkeley. She ...

F ear stalks the land, including the Upper West Side,” I wrote to a friend the other day. A week before the election, ...

Opera Company of Middlebury’s 2024–2025 Youth Opera Season will involve over 170 teen singers and instrumentalists in ...