The first translation by a woman renders the tenderness in Virgil’s war epic For more than 2,500 years, classical epic has been the province of men: written by, for, and about them, and passed down ...

The dialogue between Vergil’s Aeneid and the first pentad of Livy’s history can be partially understood through the conflict between Romulus and Aeneas, both within each individual text and in ...

This article examines Boethius' use of Virgil Aeneid 2.604-606 at Cons. 1.2.6. In both passages divine guides wipe away a "cloud" obscuring the vision of the protagonists in the two works. Boethius' ...

Regarding Melik Kaylan’s review of “Et Tu, Brute? The Best Latin Lines Ever” by Harry Mount and John Davie (Bookshelf, March 24): Latin was my favorite high-school class. Sixty years later, I remember ...

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 ...

Readers respond to Anthony Lane’s essay about Christopher Marlowe, Lauren Collins’s report on Uniqlo, and Dhruv Khullar’s article about A.I. and medical diagnosis.

THE association of these three names is not a fortuitous one. The closeness with which they themselves have interlinked their works is one proof of their greatness. They rise so high above ephemeral ...

“The song of the Aeneid is meant for moments when people desperately need to wrap their heads around an after that is shockingly different from the before they’d always known,” writes Andrea ...