Virgil

The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno....

The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization....

Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy....

Virgil's Georgics ranks as one of the most precious pastoral poems ever written, and it has served as a model for its type ever since....

James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. The surviving translation consists of lines 1-19 and 264-547 from book six of the Aeneid, which describe Aeneas' encounter with Sibyl and his visit to the underworld....

Der Fall Trojas, die Irrfahrten des Aeneas, der Schmerz Didos, als Aeneas sie verlässt, Aeneas Gang in den Hades und vieles mehr: Vergil erschuf in der Aeneis Bilder und Geschichten, die bis zum heutigen Tag die Welt begeistern, faszinieren und, ja, auch amüsieren. Rolf Boysen gibt diesem Epos...