Dido

Sic transit gloria mundi

8 July 2023 9:00 am

Katherine Pangonis also traces the histories of Tyre, Antioch, Syracuse and Ravenna, once proud centres of government, trade and culture

Aeneas and the shade of Dido by Bartolomeo Pinelli.

A gift from beyond the grave

19 March 2016 9:00 am

Andrew Motion finds a touching parallel between Virgil’s unfinished Aeneid and Seamus Heaney’s barely finished translation of Book VI