The best part of Aw, Hell is the walking tour at the beginning—it's not a long trek, though it is heavy on rules: No sinning.

Virgil's poetry was an instant hit in Rome and his work was imitated by Ovid. “The Aeneid” was felt to be technically perfect in its structure and meter. More importantly, ...

Of Poets and Pests. The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net worth—for an extravagant funeral.

Virgil was perhaps the greatest Ancient Roman poet and his greatest work was the Aeneid, the story in epic verse of Trojan her Aeneas's journey from Troy to the area where Rome was founded. His ...

David Ferry, revered poet and translator of Latin classics, dies at 99. He won a National Book Award for poetry and was widely praised for his modern translations of Horace and Virgil ...

VIRGIL, THE POET OF RESIGNATION. No. Share full article. Aug. 12, 1877. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 12, 1877, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

We can, however, infer things about Virgil from his poems, and from remarks by his contemporaries. Ms. Ruden knows the poet, inside and out (she notes that the common spelling “Virgil” is due ...

ON POETRY & POETS (308 pp.)—T. S. Eliof—Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.50). When Poet T. S. Eliot married his secretary early this year, the news brought with it a shock of recognition: the ...

Virgil’s epic Roman poem, The Aeneid, is referenced in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, ... As revealed in the film, the verse hails from the poet Virgil and his epic The Aeneid.

Gorgeous pageants, tempestuous rejoicings in every city of the land, honored Italy's No. 1 Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro) on the 2,000th anniversary of his birth (TIME, May 5). Last week Italy ...