Auteur: Keith Maclennan

Reading Homer presents two highlights of the Iliad: Book 16, where Patroclus fights and dies, and Book 18, where Achilles grieves for him and is awarded new armour before he returns to battle. It ena …

This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas – like Odysseus in Odyssey XI – visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his ‘Homeric’ past, the wanderings he has undergone …

This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas – like Odysseus in Odyssey XI – visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his ‘Homeric’ past, the wanderings he has undergone …

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love …

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love …

Book VIII of the Aeneid presents a crucial turning point in the mythological foundation of Rome, with clear political resonances for the future Augustan regime. Set on the verge of war between the La …

Book VIII of the Aeneid presents a crucial turning point in the mythological foundation of Rome, with clear political resonances for the future Augustan regime. Set on the verge of war between the La …

In Book IV of Virgil’s "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, a …

In Book IV of Virgil’s "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, a …

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil’s Aeneid VIII, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for lines 86 27 …

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-level (Group 3) prescription of Virgil’s Aeneid VIII, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for lines 86 27 …