This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Images of gold, fire and transformation occur throughout the Aeneid, but they are significantly concentrated in book 8 as the poem and Aeneas ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Since its founding in 1880 by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, The American Journal of Philology has helped to shape American classical ...

For countless students, “The Aeneid” has been one of those dusty, required texts to get through, with its old-world story of gods and fate and empire. But Fagles says that the book is not only a ...

Seamus Heaney was working on a translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid in the last months of his life. In this five-part series, actor Sir Ian McKellen reads the poet's posthumously published final ...