Setting a capstone on the treatment of classical epic that she began with her extraordinary lectures on Homer, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver has created this masterful course on Virgil. The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written. It was basic to the education of generations of Romans, and has stirred the imaginations of such writers and artists as St. Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Brueghel the Elder, Milton, Rubens, Tennyson, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. Taught by: Professor Elizabeth Vandiver — Whitman College Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction 2. From Aeneas to Romulus 3. Rome, Augustus, and Virgil 4. The Opening of the Aeneid 5. From Troy to Carthage 6. Unhappy Dido 7. Funeral Games and a Journey to the Dead 8. Italy and the Future 9. Virgil's Iliad 10. The Inevitable Doom of Turnus 11. The Gods and Fate 12. The End of the Aeneid and Beyond