Actor Stephen Rea performed Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid

Recorded June 22, 2019. Actor Stephen Rea performed Seamus Heaney’s
translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem written
between 29 and 19 BC. The story follows Aeneas as he journeys into
the underworld. Acknowledging the significance of Virgil’s poem to
his writing, Heaney noted “there’s one Virgilian journey that has
indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas’s venture into
the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for
years—the golden bough, Charon’s barge, the quest to meet the shade
of the father.” Accompanied by musician Neill Martin Learn more at:
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