It's the Engines on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's

podcast where you might remember a few months ago we talked all about that epic poet

Homer and we talked all about the Iliad and the Odyssey at Great Titan of Ancient Greek

History. Now we're talking about another figure, a Roman figure, perhaps the counterpart

of Homer but maybe I'm stretching it a bit too far, we've saying that but we are, of

course, talking about the figure of Virgil, a man who created the Georgics, the Eclogs

and of course the Iliad. Now to talk through who Virgil was and given

overview of his various works and what influenced Virgil in the creation of these great stories,

these great pieces of literature from our distant past, but I was delighted to interview

a few days ago Dr. Anne Rodgerson from the University of Sydney and without further

ado to talk all about Virgil, here's Anne.

Anne, it is wonderful to have you on the podcast today. Thank you very much, it's very nice

to be here. You're more than welcome and a huge thank you once again because I know you're

dialing in from Sydney for this episode and it's quite late in the day there but it's

to talk about a favourite topic of yours and one that I must admit I don't know that

much about some really looking forward to learning more about this figure. Virgil, the

legacy of this figure and I know he's often ranked amongst one of Rome's greatest ever

poets but alongside what he actually wrote the legacy of those works too is absolutely

astonishing how the endure down to the present day and will continue to in the future too.

That's right, one of the things that's so interesting about Virgil is that ever since

he first wrote his poetry it has been read continuously not just in Roman Italy where

he was writing but throughout what was the Roman Empire and then beyond that as well.

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