The Aeneid

Virgil - Aeneid

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to f...

The Aeneid of Virgil - Virgil

The Aeneid of Virgil (19 BC) is an epic poem by Roman poet Virgil. Virgil’s legendary epic is the story of the hero Aeneas, a castaway from Troy whose adventures across the Mediterranean led him to Italy, where he discovered what would later become the city of Rome. Presented here in an accessible p...

Reading Virgil's "Aeneid" - Christine Perkell

Vergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and pat...

Aeneid, The Epic Tale Complete (Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Scienc)(Pevná)

Virgil's masterpiece, one of the greatest works in Western literature, was written in Latin, between 29 and 19 BCE, recalling events after the Fall of Troy over 1200 years before, as told in the famous Homeric epics of Greek literature the Iliad and the Odyssey. The great adventures of Aeneas' fligh...

The Aeneid

Vergil - Aeneid

Virgil - Aeneid

'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...' So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a nar...

Aeneid (Virgil)(Brožovaná)

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to f...

Virgil,Shadi Bartsch - Aeneid

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil s Aeneid restores the epic s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture. Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English. Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand year...

Aeneid Book VI (Seamus Heaney)(Brožovaná)

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld.