According to legend, long before the Romans founded Rome, there was a Greek city called Pallantium in the same area.

Best known for his epic poem, “The Aeneid”, Virgil (70 – 19 BC) was regarded by Romans as a national treasure. His work reflects the relief he felt as civil war ended and the rule of ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II invites us to behold extravagant and historically problematic scenes that exist in dialogue with the literary sources that inspired them. 
To elicit compliance from its ...

English composer Henry Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas , based on Book IV of Roman poet Virgil’s epic The Aeneid, is all set to be ...