Virgil
Sir Andrew Davis obituary
One of Britain’s greatest conductors widely admired for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms
Barry Millington
22, Apr, 2024 @1:51 PM
Why a piece of ancient pot and a scrap of Virgil’s poetry speak to us down the ages | Charlotte Higgins
Perhaps we don’t need to know why someone inscribed a pot as it dried: it is enough to know they did it, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins
Charlotte Higgins
24, Jun, 2023 @8:00 AM
Cork Midsummer festival review – impressively ambitious programme of new work
Virgil’s The Aeneid, a real life medical emergency on a tiny island and a young actor hired by a man to play his estranged daughter all feature in venues across the city
Helen Meany
23, Jun, 2023 @11:28 AM
Virgil quote found on fragment of Roman jar unearthed in Spain
Excerpt from the Georgics was carved into vessel used for olive oil 1,800 years ago
Sam Jones in Madrid
21, Jun, 2023 @1:48 PM
Vatican enlists bots to protect library from onslaught of hackers
Apostolic Library, facing 100 threats a month, wants to ensure readers can trust digitised records of its historical treasures
Harriet Sherwood
08, Nov, 2020 @9:45 AM
Helen of Troy: the Greek epics are not just about war – they’re about women
The women of Homer and Euripides hide in plain sight, in the cause and consequences of conflict, as a new British Museum exhibition shows
Natalie Haynes
16, Nov, 2019 @3:12 PM
On my radar: Sally Rooney’s cultural highlights
The writer on Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas LP, her appreciation of brilliant footballers and why Radio 4’s Saturday Review is perfect while washing dishes
Sally Rooney
17, Dec, 2017 @10:00 AM
Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own
Women have long been marginalised in the world of ancient texts, but female scholars and translators are finally having their say
Emily Wilson
07, Jul, 2017 @9:00 AM
Aeneid VI by Seamus Heaney review – through ‘death’s dark door’ with Virgil
Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: The last work Heaney finished before he died in 2013, this stirring translation of the best book in the Latin epic poem takes us into the underworld
Nicholas Lezard
07, Mar, 2017 @9:30 AM
Vatican library digitises 1,600-year-old edition of Virgil
Seventy-six pages and 50 illustrations from the great Latin epic made available to all, part of a project to put all its 80,000 manuscripts online
Alison Flood
28, Jul, 2016 @3:00 PM
Top 10 refugees' stories
The current trauma of displaced people on the move in Europe is nothing new, and accounts of forced migration have been told since the earliest times. These are some of the best
Patrick Kingsley
18, May, 2016 @11:33 AM
The Guardian view on Seamus Heaney: Virgilian farewell | Editorial
Editorial: The poet’s last work before his death in 2013 was a translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book VI. And the Nobel prizewinner left us both an eloquent farewell – and a poem for our times
Editorial
11, Mar, 2016 @6:49 PM
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