NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with poetry critic Tess Taylor about the publication of the sixth book of The Aeneid translated by Seamus Heaney and published posthumously. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney died a ...

It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid. Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the ...

La Trobe University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes ...

It’s been roughly five centuries since the Aeneid was first translated into English—but there’s no sign of the work getting stale. Classics professor Shadi Bartsch’s new translation is evidence enough ...

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Seamus Heaney was always a generous venerator of his literary predecessors and guides. For much of his career the most dominant of these predecessor works was Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, particularly ...

The last work Heaney finished before he died in 2013, this stirring translation of the best book in the Latin epic poem takes us into the underworld At school, in an era much closer to the classical ...