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.

Playwright, poet, and performer Dael Orlandersmith is fascinated by the way people move through the world — both literally and figuratively. Her “Yellowman,” a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, explores ...

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 ...

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 austere ...

The three-inch-long pottery shard contains only parts of a passage from Virgil's Georgics. University of Cordoba Long before the modern-day novelty mug made its way into bookstores and gift shops, an ...

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 faced ...

It is not often that the name of Enid Blyton, the bestselling children’s author, is mentioned in the same breath or the same sentence as literary giants, such as Homer, Virgil or Dante. The reason for ...

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. No laughing. No touching, but the monsters can touch you. Ancient Roman ...

Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a clear, vibrant American English, her ...

We owe the blame for James Henry (1798–1876) to the critic Christopher Ricks (born in 1933). Well, perhaps we owe it to James Henry himself, an eccentric Irish physician and scholar of Virgil’s Latin ...

You gotta admit: the Rogue Theatre has spheres. Orbs. Globes. OK, balls. In a scant decade of existence, the brave (and sometimes, we have to say, a bit self-conscious) entity has tackled Boccaccio, ...