Walking through Elysium traces Vergil’s influence on literary representations of underworlds, souls, afterlives, prophecies, journeys, and spaces, from sacred and profane to wild and civilized.

Bill Gladhill is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at McGill University.
Myers Micah Y. :

Micah Y. Myers is an associate professor of classics at Kenyon College.

"Walking through Elysium deserves the attention of anyone interested in the splendor of Vergil’s achievement in what some consider to be his finest product…The editors and their colleagues have succeeded in continuing the endless and enthralling walk of explicating Aeneid 6 with admirable vigor and welcome lucidity."

Philip Hardie, Trinity College, Cambridge:

"Book 6 is arguably the most richly productive of later interpretations and rewritings, coming at the centre of a poem which is foundational for much western literature and culture, both in the pagan and Christian worlds. Walking through Elysium will attract a wide range of classicists and students of post-classical literature."

Richard Armstrong, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston:

"The specific focus on Aeneid 6 gives Walking through Elysium a powerful and consistent core, and allows for a wide array of scenarios of reception."