Federico Barocci's painting, Aeneas flees burning Troy, 1598. (Wikimedia/Free Domain) It picks up the story where Homer's Odyssey and Iliad leave off: Aeneas and his people sail west to found a ...

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast ... Agamemnon, Hector, and Aeneas remain household names even today. The Trojan War and its events provide the background for two ...

“Arma virumque cano,” Vergil begins, and with these words readers plunge headlong into an epic account of battles, upheaval and the suffering endured by upright Aeneas, who flees the ruins of Troy to ...

One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BCE.