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 ...

After facing numerous setbacks on their way to Italy, Aeneas receives a vision from his deceased father, Anchises, who instructs him to visit the Underworld and consult the spirits there to learn ...

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.