The Trojan Exodus: The Initiation of a Nation
The second book of the Aeneid, a familiar and favourite reading of a number of Latin stu- dents, focuses on the drama that unfolded during the last night of Troy.
The Trojan Exodus: The Initiation of a Nation
The second book of the Aeneid, a familiar and favourite reading of a number of Latin stu- dents, focuses on the drama that unfolded during the last night of Troy.
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius' Astronomica
The five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus
An Early Irish Visitor to the Island of Crete: The journey of Symon Semeonis from Ireland to the Holy Land
The project of the Irish translator of the Aeneid was strikingly different from that of a modern translator, of Virgil or of any other author: Whereas the modern translator will strive to convey in a different language both the substance and the form of his source (although there are always problems with metrical texts), the medieval translator, particularly of secular narratives, was primarily interested in
Revelations of Rome in Virgil's Aeneid
Ancient Rome absorbed all that was ancient Greece. In all aspects of its culture, Rome adopted the ways of Hellas, and that adaptation is manifested in the epic tale The Aeneid.
Vergil's Aeneid VIII and the Shield of Aeneas: recurrent topics and cyclic structures
An analysis of Book VIII of Vergil’s Aeneid will result in the observation that this book forms a cyclus in the way that it ends as it starts, the preparations being underway for the war against Mezentius. Inside this frame, two units, the first larger than the second, concentrate on the topics of Hercules’ connection with Rome and the shield of Aeneas.