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Hello, he lived in a time of epic upheaval and epic achievements.

It was an age of empire, ancient Roman empire presided over by Rome's first great emperor,

the mighty Augustus. One might expect a lowly poet to cower in the shadows of such a figure, but Virgil's poetry was so great, so respected, and so valued that he managed to find his own path

through the turbulent world of politics and power.

We talk about Virgil with his translator and biographer Sarah Rudin today on the history of literature.

Okay, hello, hello, hello everyone. Here we go. Welcome to the podcast. Did you miss me? We did a

single episode last week for the first time in a few years I think.

Well that's going to be our new schedule down to one a week.

Maybe a few weeks we'll do a Thursday episode but for the most part it's Mondays from here on out.

I think this is largely due.

Oh, here we go.

Off to a great start. Maybe I should leave that in show you I'm sickly and

frail. Not so much I'm actually feeling pretty healthy, but I do feel the burdens of the show which is why we're going down to one a week.

Hopefully that will come with some benefits as well. We're pursuing an increase in quality in exchange for the reduction in quantity.

And I hope you can appreciate that. And also, we're going broke, basically basically broke and frazzled.

And here's where I could point you toward our donation page at history of literature.com

slash donate and our Patreon account at Patreon.com

slash literature, but I won't do that because hey I realize I'm cutting the

production down and that's a bad time to ask for a raise. I once talked to a guy who had left his job and I said,

why did you take the new job?

What appealed to you about it?

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