Did you have an English teacher who read way too much into what a poem really meant? That teacher has nothing on fans of the Roman poet Virgil (also spelled Vergil): They believed his poetry could be ...

The Roman poet Virgil (70 B.C.–19 B.C.) is best known for writing the epic poem “The Aeneid,” but he also wrote a series of pastoral and political poems called “The Eclogues” (sometimes “The Bucolics” ...

Ours is a great age for classical translation. Just in the past dozen years, Virgil's "Aeneid" has been tackled by Robert Fagles, Stanley Lombardo, Frederick Ahl, Sarah Ruden and, now, David Ferry, ...

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 Augustus began.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. First, like all of Virgil’s extant poetry, it is written in the epic meter of dactylic hexameter, a verse form ...

Some questions have arisen on this series, which I think best to clear up now. First, as the series title indicates, these essays are about the ideas that contributed to the American Constitution, not ...