It was 29 B.C., two years into the reign of the emperor Augustus, when the Roman poet Vergil began writing his great epic, the Aeneid. Unlike the Odyssey and the Iliad, Vergilʼs response to the ...
Heaney’s account of Aeneas’s encounters with the dead across death’s river is even more powerful for its restraint. By Josephine Balmer Anglophone poetry has long been transfixed by the ancient epic.
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