“In the whole of European literature there is no poet who can furnish the texts for a more significant variety of discourse than Virgil. [He] symbolizes so much in the history ...

The Eclogues Virgil - Virgil's great lyrics, rendered by the acclaimed translator of GilgameshThe Eclogues of Virgil gave definitive form to the pastoral mode, and these ...

Using the template laid out by the poems of Theocritus, Virgil makes a Roman version that lays out several mythic and political revolutions that make it quite different than ...