Dr. Robert Fagles has spent painstaking years translating Virgil’s Aeneid – “nearly as long as it took Virgil to write the epic poem.” And why, when there are already translations available? “Every age needs classics translated into the idiom of the moment. It gives the works new vitality, new meaning. It offers to the living a connection with those who went before, the accumulated wisdom of the past, a protection from a dangerous provincialism.”