The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The epic starts with Aeneas and his Trojans on their sea-journey to the West. The poet opens with a weighty introduction: Arms a ...

Aeneas had long been famous for his 'piety', and he was often depicted in the act of carrying his old father on his shoulders ou ...

emotional point that, like Desdemona, Dido comes to love Aeneas as he tells her of the dangers he has passed. Juno is an unscrup ...

Dido And Aeneas In The Cave: illustration from a manuscript of Virgil in the Vatican Library (c. A.D. 500). The immense importan ...

very close to the wind. The book is dominated by a series of passionate speeches by Dido, of reproach, entreaty, bitterness, cur ...

Wounded Aeneas: painting from the House of Siricus at Pompeii (between AD 62 and 79). closely based on a passage in Latin poetry ...

Sit Romana potens Itala uirtute propago Other poets might have produced fine poetry on the greatness of conquest and dominion Th ...

widely accepted as Virgilian within eighty years of the poet's death. Others make no pretence of Virgilian authorship, and it se ...

Roman Historians (By Andrew Lintott) Origins A small proportion of the works of the Roman historians has survived the hiatus i ...

version of recent conflicts was a useful adjunct to foreign policy. So was publicity about the nature and antiquity of the city. ...

The first of these, antiquarianism, was apparent in Roman historiography from the beginning. The obvious Greek example for the R ...

respectability in Roman eyes. Furthermore, his desire that politicians and generals should write history, not men sitting in lib ...

Victories With A Shield: relief from a triumphal monument in Rome (early first century B.C.). This and other reliefs in the same ...

educated society woman in Sallust's Catiline. However, the analysis of the causes of decadence is comparatively superficial. Rom ...

As an interpreter of history in detail, Livy was unoriginal or simply defective in his treatment of causes. However, he substitu ...

He aimed not only to give moral edification by parading virtue and vice, but to give practical instruction. This justified his a ...

Roman Baths At Wroxeter (ancient Viriconium) near Shrewsbury (second century A.D.). Thermal baths were one of the amenities that ...

Head Of Tiberius, second of the Roman Emperors (A.D. 14-37). The portrait conveys something of the character painted by Tacitus ...

(below, pp. 667 ff.). Most of Plutarch's biographies took the form of parallel lives, in which an eminent Greek was compared wit ...

The Arts Of Prose The Early Empire (By Donald Russell) Two Languages, One Literature The first two centuries of the Christian ...