Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to[...]

Virgil's Aeneid, an epic which tells the story of Aeneas' flight from burning Troy, his adventures on the high seas and eventual arrival in Italy, thereby founding the Roman race, is one of the most influential works of Roman literature. This edition of the first two books is designed for those who [...]

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems i[...]

Virgil's "Aeneid" invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in "Virgil's Gaze", the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly - if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Tr[...]

The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancie[...]

Virgil's book of bucolic verse, the Eclogues, defines a green space separate from the outside worlds both of other Roman verse and of the real world of his audience. However, the boundaries between inside and outside are deliberately porous. The bucolic natives are aware of the presence of Rome, and[...]

Virgil performs numerous songs with backing tracks, as well as several incredible solos. In addition, he incorporates a clinic on developing double bass technique---something for which he has become well known. An awesome drumming display from one of the hottest drummers today. A pamphlet is include[...]

As more and more artists today look to the past, there has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in painting realistically - in creating convincing illusions of three-dimensional depth on two dimensional surfaces. This comprehensive sourcebook explores the most advanced levels of oil painting, wi[...]

This concise guide provides a clear theoretical framework for the study of Latin hexameter and places welcome stress on reading aloud and listening to classical verse, providing very practical help in achieving that skill.[...]

Lucas Davenport's colleague, Minneapolis investigator Virgil Flowers, takes center stage for the first time in Dark of the Moon, ';an adrenaline rush peppered with laugh-out-loud moments' (Booklist)and the rush continues through all four suspense-packed novels in this set from #1 New York Times best[...]