Transcendentalist poet and artist Christopher Cranch published the first verse translation of The Aeneid in America in 1872. (Wikimedia/Free Domain) But there is another way to read the poem ...

But Sarah Ruden, who has translated The Aeneid into English, adds the epic poem shows another side that focuses on humanity. "Virgil appears to be the first author who gives a sympathetic ...

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 Caesar, the newly minted Emperor, full of crusading zeal, embarked on a bit of a re-brand, and the Aeneid was Virgil ... Twelve books of the poem occupied him for about ten years ...