... huts on the Roman hills became an extensive and complex city, its monumental buildings and large public spaces evidence of power and wealth. Two competing foundation legends accounted for this shift, one featuring the Trojan fugitive Aeneas and the other the wolf-reared Romulus and Remus. Both played...

... that they convey upon him is one in which they themselves also participate. The conversations that Aeneas and Ulysses have in the Underworld are of the utmost importance: they are unique and living testimonies in which the reader is allowed a glimpse of mysteries that are normally kept hidden. Eliot's verse...