Sarah Ruden

Sarah Ruden is a translator, poet, and journalist whose books include The Face of Water : A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible and translations of Augustine’s Confessions and Vergil’s Aeneid. Her most recent book is Vergil: The Poet’s Life.

Facing the Facts

An antiquated take on antiquity

By Sarah Ruden | Monday June 3, 2024

Will the Real Vergil Please Stand Up?

Making sense of the life of a poet about whom we know so little

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday August 17, 2023

Feast of Eden

A look at humanity’s most famous star-crossed couple

By Sarah Ruden | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Riddles for the Afterlife

Decoding the hieroglyphs that accompanied the dead pharaohs

By Sarah Ruden | Monday December 7, 2015

Upward Bound

Abraham’s merciful stay of hand

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday September 5, 2013

Golden Rules

Wealth and culture in early Christian times

By Sarah Ruden | Tuesday September 4, 2012

End Times

The Bible’s failed prophecy

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday March 1, 2012

Facing the Facts

By Sarah Ruden | Monday June 3, 2024

Will the Real Vergil Please Stand Up?

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday August 17, 2023

Feast of Eden

By Sarah Ruden | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Riddles for the Afterlife

By Sarah Ruden | Monday December 7, 2015

Upward Bound

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday September 5, 2013

Golden Rules

By Sarah Ruden | Tuesday September 4, 2012

End Times

By Sarah Ruden | Thursday March 1, 2012

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