It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid.Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the Homeric ...

‘Vergil: The Poet’s Life’ By Sarah Ruden Yale University Press, 199 pages. Sylvia Plath, George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Mansfield, ...

Yet Ms. Ruden’s persuasively re-imagined Virgil is a sympathetic, three-dimensional figure. 16 Books We Read This Week The long shadow of Vichy France, the reticent author of the ‘Aeneid ...

On Tuesday, April 9, the Department of Classical Studies and the William & Mary/St. Andrews Joint Degree Programme hosted Thomas Biggs for his talk, “Gender & Intertextuality in Vergil’s Aeneid.” The ...

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