The first translation by a woman renders the tenderness in Virgil’s war epic For more than 2,500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for, and about them, and passed ...

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, ...

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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 ...

The reluctant hero of this tale is Aeneas, the son of a prince and the goddess Venus, a character Virgil borrowed from Homer. In Homer’s Iliad, Aeneas fights in the Trojan War against the Greeks. In ...

Based on an episode from the “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic tale of the founding of Rome, the opera focuses on the Trojan prince Aeneas and Dido, the Carthage queen.

Although Aeneas eventually surrenders to his fate and fulfills his destiny, he is constantly overwhelmed and waylaid by his emotions, even to the very end when he slays Turnus. This very Stoic ...

The Aeneid does this in a dream in which Aeneas was the mythic founder of that great city which would seem to be than Troy romanticized far sounder. Fortune reversal is the trope ...

"Dido and Aeneas", based on a story from Virgil's "Aeneid," tells the tale of Dido, Queen of Carthage, and her star-crossed Trojan lover Aeneas. First performed in the late 1600s, the one-hour work is ...

First performed in 1689 at Josias Priest's girls' school in London, Dido and Aeneas is based on a portion of Book IV of Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid (29-19 BC).