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 ... Twelve books of the poem occupied him for about ten years ...
This book explores how Virgil in his Aeneid incorporates the ancient Stoics' thinking about how humans can exercise ... His publications include Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its ...