The Aeneid and the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vergils Epic in the 20th and 21st Centuries

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid which 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 ?"