The Aeneid

The Aeneid (Virgil)

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgils great epic Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through st...

Virgil (Keith Alison)

The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the golden age of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic...

Virgil, a Poet in Augustan Rome (Morwood James)

An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Virgil is to Latin literature what Homer is to Greek and Shakespeare to English. He is both the supreme poet of Romes greatness and its most profound exponen...

Selections from Virgils Aeneid Books 1-6: A Student Reader (Carter Ashley)

This reader of Virgils text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgils poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted quest...

Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 (Virgil)

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems i...

In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero? (Adolph Anthony)

Aeneas is one of the most prominent heroes who fought at Troy, as told in Homers Iliad, and he is the subject of Virgils Aeneid. Both works lie at the heart of western civilisation and are fantastic adventures involving love and war, journeys across wine-dark seas and the destruction and founding of...

The Aeneid

On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of un...

Before the Wax Hardened (Kenny Adrian)

Originally published in 1992, this childhood memoir, revised and augmented, now has the status of a modern Irish classic. On his first trip abroad, Adrian Kenny observes that the signs are in one language only. There is no need for translation: there is nothing behind. Not so in his suburban childho...

Aeneid 3 (Vergil)

Rome Before Rome

Philip Matyszak skilfully navigates the myths and legends of early Rome, exploring the enigmatic origins of the Romans and how the first seeds of a great empire were sown.‘I sing of arms and the man’ wrote Virgil at the start of the Aeneid, one of Rome’s most iconic origin stories exploring the tumu...