Scott McGill and Susannah Wright present their landmark new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, in conversation with MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Homer translator Emily Wilson.

Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, doomed romance, fateful battle, and devastating tragedy — and the mythic origin story of Rome. Through its stirring account of human struggle, meddling gods, and conflicting destinies, the poem brings to life the triumphs and trials that led to one of the most powerful societies the world has ever known. Heart-pounding and utterly-absorbing, Scott McGill and Susannah Wright’s new translation — introduced by Emily Wilson — renders Virgil’s epic into English like never before, a poetry that sounds as human as it does divine.

Hear it live as McGill and Wright join Emily Wilson, renowned translator of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, for a conversation about Virgil’s timeless poem — a story of love, war, empire, and the underworld.