Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, in which Aeneas travels into the underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian McKellen.

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The aim of this article is to re-examine the links between Heart of Darkness and the Aeneid—the Latin epic which is already known to have ...

Augustus Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil ... thank you letters). Twelve books of the poem occupied him ...

One of the blueprints for imperialism has always been The Aeneid, by the Roman poet Virgil, working between 29 and 19 BC. It tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan leader on the run with his son ...