Book description
Visionary, scholar, idealist, poet and author of a momentous epic and
other timeless works, Wishart's Virgil is a man of contradictions:
celibate but capable of great love; stuffy, sometimes prudish but often
extremely warm and open; shy but with a talent for friendship and a
certain magnetism. Through his eyes we gain an oblique view of great
historical events: the assassination of Caesar, the downfall of Pompey
and the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. He resists involvement in
politics until fate leads him inexorably to the meeting with Octavian
that is to result in the commission of his masterpiece, THE AENEID.
David Wishart studied Classics at Edinburgh University. He then taught
Latin and Greek in school for four years and after this retrained as a
teacher of EFL. He lived and worked abroad for eleven years, working in
Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia, and now lives with his wife and family
in Scotland.
