The Aeneid
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Join fellow alumae Susannah L. Wright and her colleague Scott McGill for the launch of their new translation of Virgil's Aeneid!
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 6:30 PM
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet St.
Houston, TX 77005-1451
This exciting new edition of the Aeneid, the first collaborative translation of the poem in English, is rendered in unrhymed iambic pentameter, the English meter that corresponds best, in its history and cultural standing, to Virgil’s dactylic hexameter. Scott McGill and Susannah Wright achieve an ideal middle ground between readability and elevation, engaging modern readers with fresh, contemporary language in a heart-pounding, propulsive rhythm, while also preserving the epic dignity of the original. The result is a brisk, eminently approachable translation that captures Virgil’s sensitive balance between celebrating the Roman Empire and dramatizing its human costs, for victors and vanquished alike. This Aeneid is a poem in English every bit as complex, inviting, and affecting as the Latin original.
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