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VirgilAeneid
Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | BCEA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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Books & Articles
In this award-winning best-seller published in 2016 by Profile Books, English classicist Mary Beard provides an accessible and overarching view of ancient Rome.
Oxford historian Philip Hardie explores the ancient, medieval and modern ripples of the Aeneid in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film in this 2008 publication.
A playful and thought-provoking May 2018 analysis of the Aeneid in online fashion magazine Bustle.
- Magazine Article “Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?”
New Yorker writer Daniel Mendelsohn digs into the Aeneid’s context and authorship to examine the epic poem’s political stance.
Videos & Podcasts
This podcast created by the U.K.’s University of Warwick looks at the sweeping and small human struggles represented in classic poetry, and the average human’s part in these tales.
Professor Stephen Harrison of Corpus Christi College and the University of Oxford discusses Virgil and the historical context of his epic poem, the Aeneid in this short video.
Other
A map tracking the travels of the Aeneid’s Trojan hero, Aeneas.
Borghese Gallery’s website offers an image of this 16th century painting by Italian artist Federico Barocci of Aeneas fleeing a burning city, as well as analysis of the painting.
A 2010 mural by contemporary artist known as “Buffdiss” depicting Dido lamenting her abandonment by her lover, Aeneas.
