For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The aim of this article is to re-examine the links between Heart of Darkness and the Aeneid—the Latin epic which is already known to have ...

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music ...

Inscribed on it, visitors will read a line from Virgil's "Aeneid": "No day shall erase you from the memory of time." The museum's creators, however, took the line out of context, the The New York ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

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