Born a peasant, Virgil was raised on a farm before being educated in the Greek and Roman authors. His rural upbringing influenced all his poetry, especially his earlier work, like the “Eclogues”.

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

The poet Virgil observed, “So vast a toil it was to found the State of Rome.” In ancient times, the city of Rome astonished everyone. The Pantheon, the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus ...

The idea of Rome as the Eternal City started in ancient Roman literature. Poets like Virgil and Ovid wrote about Rome’s eternal future. Rome’s role as the center of a vast empire made it the ...

Natalie Haynes considers the work of the Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on bee-keeping to his great work The Aeneid. Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the best ...