But Sarah Ruden, who has translated The Aeneid into English, adds the epic poem shows another side that focuses on humanity. "Virgil appears to be the first author who gives a sympathetic ...

The story goes that Virgil had a pet housefly, and when the insect died, Virgil spent 800,000 sesterces—nearly all of his net ...

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 ...

A centuries-old painting that graced the walls of London’s Tate Gallery for more than three decades will soon be returned to the descendants of a Belgian art collector who was persecuted by the Nazis ...

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 ...

The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from ...