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 ...

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’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 ...

The dialogue between Vergil’s Aeneid and the first pentad of Livy’s history can be partially understood through the conflict between Romulus and Aeneas, both within each individual text and in ...

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 ...