­In 1970, the first-ever complete translation into Bengali of the Latin epic Aeneid was published under the imprint of Jadavpur University.The translation, carried out by the legendary Fr. Robert Antoine and Hrisikesh Basu, has long been out of print. JUP is proud to reissue the work, with a new introduction by noted writer and scholar Nabaneeta Deb Sen.

Translators: Robert Antoine was born in Dolhain, Belgium in 1914 and joined the Society of Jesus in 1932. He came to India in 1939 and was one of the founding faculty members of the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, in 1956. Some of his works include an English translation of Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsa (1972), a translation of seven ­Theban plays into English (1974) and Rama and the Bards, Epic Memory in the Ramayana (1975).
Hrishikesh Basu was a Sanskrit scholar whose publications include Kadambari o gadyasahitya shilpabichar.­