If the Aeneid is an admiring piece of propaganda for empire triumphant, whose hero emblematizes the necessity of suppressing individuality in the interest of the state, what do you do with Dido ...

In many ways, The Aeneid is a story of conquest meant to please his patron, Emperor Augustus, who was busy transforming Rome from a republic to an empire, and needed the good-news propaganda.

The first translation by a woman renders the tenderness in Virgil’s war epic For more than 2,500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for, and about them, and passed ...