Aeneas leads the survivors from the sack of Troy through the Mediterranean, and ultimately to the site of (future) Rome. The Aeneid is therefore a classic foundation narrative. As with other ...

Then, there’s Aeneas himself—“in some ways,” as even the Great Courses Web site felt compelled to acknowledge, “the dullest character in epic literature.” In the Aeneid’s opening ...

APROPOS of the interminable BaconShakespeare controversy there may be interest for the curious and combative in the ingenious case made out by Père Jean Hardouin, a seventeenth-century Jesuit ...

One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son ...

“The Aeneid” therefore has a double time scale: the story itself tells of the very earliest days of Rome through the actions of the hero, Aeneas. But Virgil also writes of the destiny of Rome ...

Aeneas has Turnus on his knees ... This very Stoic conflict is the source of some of the most resonant lines in the Aeneid, such as this one: “Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind ...

the verse hails from the poet Virgil and his epic The Aeneid. The poem follows the story of the Trojan hero Aeneas, who escapes the fall of Troy and is aided by his mother, the goddess Venus.

This was by far the toughest, because the latter part of The Aeneid is mostly a battle story. Aeneas basically camps out near Rome, invades it, and takes over. And the issue that Virgil used was a ...