The Aeneid
Join fellow alumae Susannah L. Wright and her colleague Scott McGill for the launch of their new translation of Virgil's Aeneid!
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Friday, August 15, 2025 | 5:30 PM
Twig Book Shop
306 Pearl Parkway
San Antonio, TX 78215-1290
Moderated by Tim O'Sullivan, a Classics professor at Trinity and a fellow Harvard PhD grad
(event details here, and more about the book on the publisher's website here).
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.
If you enjoy reading ancient literature, the challenges and delights of verse translation, and more, you will be in the right place! Hope to see you at Twigs.