The Aeneid

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Simon and Schuster, Jul 21, 2009 - Fiction - 464 pages
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Virgil's sweeping epic of Trojan warrior Aeneas and the founding of Rome -- a stirring tale of exile, heroism, and combat, and of a man caught between love, duty, and fate.

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    Contents

    Book I
    		3
    Book III
    		68
    Book IV
    		96
    Book V
    		126
    Book VI
    		160
    Book VII
    		197
    Book VIII
    		230
    Book IX
    		259
    Book XI
    		331
    Book XII
    		370
    Notes
    		411
    Critical Excerpts
    		431
    Copyright

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    Common terms and phrases

    Aeneas altars appears arms bear blood body bore borne breast called chief clouds command course cries crowned dare death descends designed earth equal eyes face fall fame fatal fate father fear field fight fire fixed flames flies flood foes force fortune friends fury give gods Grecian ground hand haste head heaven hero honor hopes Italy join Jove king labors land Latian leave length living mind night o’er once pass peace plain prepare pressed prince pursue queen race rage raised remains renew rest rising rolling Roman sacred seek sent shades shield ships shore side sight sire skies soul sound spear stands stood sword thee thou towers town train trembling Trojan troops Troy turns Turnus unhappy Virgil vows walls winds wood wound young youth

    About the author (2009)

    Born in 70 BCE, at the height of the Roman Empire, epic poet Publius Vergilius Maro, or Virgil, as he is now known, was the son of a farmer in Northern Italy. He was educated in Cremona, Milan and finally Rome before returning to the North to begin work on Eclogues which was published in 37BCE. When a civil war forced him south into Naples, he completed the farming poem Georgics. Soon after, Virgil began working on his masterwork, The Aeneid, a story that derived from the existing tradition of the Greek hero Aeneas. Virgil worked on The Aeneid for eleven years but was never satisfied enough to call it complete. After returning from Greece, Virgil fell ill, and before his death he ordered the incomplete manuscript be burned. He died in 19 BCE, and shortly after The Aeneid was published against his wishes.

    Bibliographic information

    TitleThe Aeneid
    Enriched Classics
    AuthorVirgil
    PublisherSimon and Schuster, 2009
    ISBN1416599614, 9781416599616
    Length464 pages
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    Fiction / General
    Poetry / Ancient & Classical
    Poetry / Epic
    Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Places
      
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