Aeneid and the Modern World

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid that aims to illuminate its importance to our present moment. It provides a rigorous and multifaceted answer to the question, "Why should we still think about the Aeneid?"

The book contains chapters detailing previously undocumented modern literary receptions of Vergil’s epic, addre...