Dido and Aeneas opera, staged at the Bangalore International Centre, blends Western music with Indian aesthetics, to showcase ...

A corollary for current events to The New Mexican’s motto magna est veritas et praevalebit (great is truth and it will prevail) is the adage from Virgil’s Aeneid: Facilis descensus averno ...

Graphic novelist and artist Gareth Hinds read “The Odyssey” for the first time in high school. His teacher could tell that he ...

Born and raised in Michigan, Isaac Hamlet graduated from the University of Iowa majoring in English and minoring in Latin and ...

ICE agents arrested a Honduran man at his church in Georgia. As Augustine chronicled after the sack of Rome, even the ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music, Bangalore ...

King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...

The daunting scale of everything is hard to absorb, and the burden of what's transpired might feel overwhelming. But amid the ...

Anthony Pagden is a professor of political science and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. 1 Virgil, Aeneid, 8: 908–912. The translation is by John Dryden.

Virgil’s Aeneid was inspired by Homer and served as the inspiration for Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this epic poem, and we follow the ...

In the Aeneid, written in the first century BC by Virgil, Prince Aeneas of Troy is described as sailing to Italy and visiting the region where Rome would later be established. But when he arrived in ...

Tuesday 10:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. When Virgil’s lovers Dido and Aeneas meet ... What are the politics of gender in The Aeneid? How does Elena Ferrante redefine them in her retelling of the Dido story in ...