Roman poet Virgil who is best known for his epic, The Aeneid, wrote a famous line through the character of Juno. "If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell," is one of the most memorable declarations ...

The Roman Publius Virgilius Maro, better known as Virgil, is undoubtedly one of the West’s greatest poets. Not only did he invent Rome’s mythic founder Aeneas and the celebrated Trojan horse, his ...

Did you have an English teacher who read way too much into what a poem really meant? That teacher has nothing on fans of the Roman poet Virgil (also spelled Vergil): They believed his poetry could be ...

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 ...

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of Augustus began.

The previous (ninth) essay in this series identified three Roman poets quoted by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–90—Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. The essay explained why Virgil was the ...

David Ferry, a renowned poet and translator who transported modern readers to Gilgamesh’s Mesopotamia, to Horace and Virgil’s Rome and to a startling literary landscape that was entirely his own, ...