I remember taking the Aeneid in college. Our professor had the reputation of walking into a classroom as a substitute for any language that our college offered without preparing for class would be able to know exactly where the class was. There were 12 in the class and all of us spent 2 hours a night working on a few sentences only to get spanked the next day by our professor. It was the nearest thing to hell we understood . . . still love the Aeneid though.
This was a response to the same question on FB: "Gus, absolutely! The project is running a bit behind projected schedule. We had originally hoped for this Christmas, and it's looking like it will be this Spring. Wes Callihan is continuing to work through it as Dr. Dale Grote provides a peer review of the rendtion. Here is a little sampling from the beginning of Book V: But now Pallas Athene gave might and courage to Tydeus' son Diomedes, for him to be foremost among all the Argives and win glorious renown. She kindled unquenchable flame from his helmet and shield, like the star of summer that glitters brightly above all others after he has bathed in the ocean stream. In the same way she kindled flame from his head and shoulders and sent him into the midst, where men thronged the thickest."
i have the Mandelbaum. I also have an old hardcover from 1917 The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. He also wrote an Iliad and the Odyssey for Boys and Girls
I don't know that the Christians read the Aeneid as prophetic of Christianity as much as Christian Rome kept its traditions and just reinterpreted them for Christ. They just treated Jesus as Caesar, so everything would still fit. And then you have to gloss over a LOT of awful history to settle on the current state of play and go, "See? Jesus still reigns over an expanding, global church, as was prophecied."
