And, indeed, this is a remarkable new translation, full of nightfall beauties, pierced at its climax by a rainbow surge of hope. The Aeneid is the great masterpiece of the golden age of Roman ...

Ursula K. Le Guin, whose series of Earthsea books have delighted children, adolescents, and adults alike for three decades, has one of the most refined moral sensibilities of any fantasist. True, she ...

Austin, Colin, and Guido Bastianini. 2002. Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia. Milan. Barchiesi, Alessandro. 2001. Speaking Volumes: Narrative and Intertext in ...

Roman marble relief from 140-150 C.E., showing the Trojan Aeneas and his son Ascanius landing on the shores of Italy. The sow is telling him to found the city of Rome. Credit: iStock “I will be the ...

The Oxford Student, the largest student newspaper of the nearly thousand-year-old teaching institution, reported in mid-February that the classics faculty has recommended that Homer’s Iliad and Virgil ...

I see a lot of arms and men who believe themselves in exile. Though, unlike the hero Aeneas who must traverse “far and pathless” ways to find a new home in distant Italy after the destruction of his ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...

As every schoolboy knows, the title of this weblog has been borrowed from the first two words of Virgil’s Aeneid. Now, when we came up with the name, who could have predicted the epic heights this ...

Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) Vol. 12, 2017 THE SINISTER ORACLE. JOSEPH CONRAD’S HEART OF DARKNESS AND VIRGIL’S AENEID This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The aim of ...

Edited by A.T. Reyes, foreword by Walter Hooper, preface by D.O. Ross. Yale Univ., $27.50 (184p) ISBN 978-0-300-16717-7 Author of the hugely popular Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis's literary endeavors ...