For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be the weekend’s talk of the town as Legato School Of Music ...

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It’s a tale of Aeneas’s journey to the underworld ... and the Aeneid was Virgil’s way of supporting Augustus Caesar’s aims. “You’ve never had it so good.” Virgil did a really ...

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Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas from 1689 has become one of the most famous and beloved operas from the Baroque era, with its sumptuous music, dramatic plot and its themes of love, friendship ...

Heartbroken, Dido kills herself. Eventually, Aeneas and crew land in Hesperia, what's now Italy, and do battle with the locals. The way Virgil saw it, long before Romlus and Remus were on the ...