Born in 70 BC, Virgil (full name: Publius Vergilius Maro) was an ancient Roman poet who wrote the Latin epic poem "The Aeneid." Although Virgil’s writing continues to be highly acclaimed and ...

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 began.

In Of Grammatology, Derrida writes in passing that Freud's concept of Nachträglichkeit or "deferred effect" fundamentally reorganizes our understanding of the successive or linear nature of time. In ...

Rome. 29 B.C.E. The Republic has fallen, and Roman politics are a real hot mess. Octavius Caesar — soon to be known as Augustus — has seized control of the empire, after chasing down the senators who ...

Jean-Baptiste Wicar, "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia," circa 1790 (image: Wikimedia Commons) The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch dreaded the rise of Hitler, and with good ...

But the twelve books of the “Aeneid,” on which Virgil spent his last decade, were quickly judged a masterpiece of Latin literature. We owe the poem’s survival to Augustus. Virgil fell ill on his way ...

THE DEATH OF VIRGIL — Hermann Broch—Pantheon Books ($5.50). THE PINE TREE AND THE MOLE—Enzio Taddei—Dial ($2.50). The ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium ...