Showing results for "Vergil" in History

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.

The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70–19 BCE) became the world’s first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct the life of Rome’s greatest poet.