For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to ...

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.” So wrote the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem, “The Aeneid.” At the moment, congressional Democrats can’t move heaven, and they are not raising hell ...

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 Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had ...

At the 9/11 memorial in New York, a line from Virgil’s Aeneid, wrought in iron from the debris of the collapsed towers, spanning 60 feet: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Moving, ...

Inscribed on it, visitors will read a line from Virgil's "Aeneid": "No day shall erase you from the memory of time." The museum's creators, however, took the line out of context, the The New York ...

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.