The Aeneid

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2009 - Fiction - 393 pages
"I sing of arms and the man..."

So begins the ageless epic of Aeneas and his men, who are seemingly destined to wander the ancient world endlessly, the playthings of wrathful gods. Fleeing the ruins of Troy, Aeneas must fight his battles with little notion that Jupiter has ordained that the Trojan champion shall promulgate a race that will be the forebears of Rome.


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About the author (2009)

Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Aeneid
Signet Classics
AuthorVirgil
Translated byPatric Dickinson
ContributorsPatric Dickinson, Matthew S. Santirocco
Editionillustrated
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN0451531175, 9780451531179
Length393 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Fiction / Literary
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / Ancient & Classical
Poetry / General
  
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