It dealt thoughtfully with the complex relations at the heart of the Roman Empire. Virgil worked on “The Aeneid” for the rest of his life. In 19 BC, planning to spend a further three years on ...

Virgil is using the sea as a metaphor to show the dual-nature of the Roman Empire. The "face of calm" that Palinurus mistrusts is the empire's appearance of civility and lawfulness. The "monster" that ...

They divided the Roman Empire between them ... Antony and Cleopatra's Egyptian forces at Actium in Greece, in what Virgil would later depict as an epic struggle of eastern barbarians against ...

Virgil’s Aeneid was inspired by Homer and ... looking to understand the myths and legends that governed the Greco-Roman Empire.

But on close consideration, the statement is not that of the film’s producers but of late-empire Rome ... is enshrined in Rome’s epic poem, Virgil’s Aeneid (19 BC), written to curry favor ...