APROPOS of the interminable BaconShakespeare controversy there may be interest for the curious and combative in the ingenious case made out by Père Jean Hardouin, a seventeenth-century Jesuit scholar, ...

Born in 70 BC, Virgil (full name: Publius Vergilius Maro) was an ancient Roman poet who wrote the Latin epic poem "The Aeneid." Although Virgil’s writing continues to be highly acclaimed and ...

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.

But the twelve books of the “Aeneid,” on which Virgil spent his last decade, were quickly judged a masterpiece of Latin literature. We owe the poem’s survival to Augustus. Virgil fell ill on his way ...

Jean-Baptiste Wicar, "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia," circa 1790 (image: Wikimedia Commons) The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch dreaded the rise of Hitler, and with good ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...

'I have granted them empire without end," says Jupiter of the Romans in Virgil's "Aeneid," the epic poem that tells the story of Rome's earliest inhabitants coming from the fallen city of Troy to ...

This week, the Professor continues his summer series on religion and epic poetry. "Now, I am warning you," I tell the undergraduates on the first day of class, "This is a very politically incorrect ...