The Aeneid (In Our Time)
19 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss 'The Aeneid'. Out of the tragedy and destruction of the Trojan wars came a man heading West, his father on his back and his small son holding his hand. This isn't Odysseus, it's Aeneas and in that vision Virgil gives an image of the very first Romans of the Empire.Virgil's Aeneid was the great epic poem that formed a founding
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Around 19 BCE
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Reign of Augustus (27 BCE)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Reign of Nero (54)
- Julius Caesar (100 BCE)
- Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Caesar crosses the Rubicon (49 BCE)
- Augustus (63 BCE)
- Saint Paul (5)