Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In his last few years the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, perhaps the greatest poet of his generation, decided to translate book VI ...

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, ...

Seamus Heaney was always a generous venerator of his literary predecessors and guides. For much of his career the most dominant of these predecessor works was Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, particularly ...

Another classic piece of literature comes to the stage in Montreal. This time, it's The Aeneid, the Latin epic poem written by Virgil more than 2000 years ago. Like The Illiad and The Odyssey - which ...

Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a clear, vibrant American English, her ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elsewhere Anchises, Fatherly and intent, was off in a deep green valley Surveying and reviewing souls consigned there, Those due to pass to the light of the upper world. It so happened he was just ...

It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld; our plucky hero must cross the Styx, journey from Troy to Rome and then beat the Latins, notoriously the most difficult section in Strictly Come ...

This article contains major Gladiator II spoilers. Ridley Scott has made a triumphant return to the arena with Gladiator II, a piece of cinema with a capital “C” that has all the spectacle you would ...