According to legend, Vergil declared of himself ‘Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope: cecini pascua, rura, duces.’ (‘Mantua bore me, Calabria took me; now Naples holds me: I sang of pastures, fields, and leaders.’) In her rigorously researched biography, the American classicist Sarah Ruden shows that this is largely true – even if
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Like translations, most biographies are for the time of their audience. In 2008 Sarah Ruden delivered an “Aeneid” in a line-by-line version that spoke in a…
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