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 ...

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In 1945, in a famous lecture called “What is a Classic?,” T.S. Eliot described Virgil as the most truly classical of all poets, on the grounds that his work supposedly exemplifies a supreme “maturity ...

Mark Morris’ danced opera “Dido and Aeneas” is a tour de force of late 20th century artistic storytelling, a partial retelling of Virgil’s 2,000-year-old epic poem “Aeneid” using Henry Purcell’s 1689 ...

Since the end of the first century A.D., people have been playing a game with a certain book. In this game, you open the book to a random spot and place your finger on the text; the passage you select ...

Underwhelming immersive take on Virgil’s Aeneid staged in a former factory This new immersive take on Virgil’s Aeneid is admirably conceived, but as an experience, it reminded me of studying the ...