An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary id

This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the exami

A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil's Aeneid.

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.