Virgil

"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...

La Eneida, el gran poema épico de la cultura latina, posee además de su evidente función programática y política enaltecedora de Augusto, excelsos valores estéticos que siguen fascinando a los lectores actuales. Publio Virgilio Marón (70-19 A.C.) gozó, más que de la admiración, de la veneración de todos los romanos, puesto que fue decisivo en la educación espiritual de su sociedad. Pero, al margen de su ascendencia y prestigio nacionales,...

"In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history of Europe, and represents such central European values..." —T.S. Eliot The Eclogues (38 BC), also known as the Bucolics, is a work by Roman poet Virgil. Although less prominent than The Aeneid, Virgil's legendary epic of the Trojan hero Aeneas and his discovery of what would...

"A melancholy masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century. In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the significance of the poem to his writing, noting that "there's one Virgilian journey...

Everyone attempting to work through Franz Bardon's book Initiation into Hermetics will someday face one of two possible outcomes – success or failure. How you use your time in the present will determine which of these outcomes you will ultimately face in the future. In this book, Virgil discusses one of the best uses of time for aspiring magicians – prayer. Through the use of prayer heavenly assistance can be obtained, virtues can be cultivated,...

The Essential Greek and Roman Anthology: The Aeneid- Virgil Meditations- Marcus Aurelius Of The Nature of Things- Lucretius Plato's Republic Alcestis- Euripides, The Electra of Euripides Hippolytus/The Bacchae- Euripides, The Iphigenia in Tauris- Euripedes, The Trojan women of Euripides Agamemnon- Aeschylus, The Choephori- Aeschylus Eumenides- Aeschylus, The Persians- Aeschylus Prometheus Bound- Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes- Aeschylus, The...

"The Aeneid" is considered by some to be one of the most important epic poems of all time. The story is as much one of the great epic hero, Aeneas, as it is of the foundation of the Roman Empire. Aeneas, a Trojan Prince who escapes after the fall of troy, travels to Italy to lay the foundations for what would become the great Roman Empire. Virgil's "Aeneid" is a story of great adventure, war, love, and of the exploits of an epic hero. In the work...

Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation. Cast in the tradition of pastoral poetry, The Eclogues were written between 41 BCE and 37 BCE when Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, to give him his full name) was in his thirties. The Eclogues (the word means 'Selections' in Greek) contain 10 poems, a combination of dialogues...