
Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil’s world by esteemed scholar Bernard Knox, this volume lends a vibrant new voice to one of the seminal literary achievements of the ancient world. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were welcomed as major publishing events, brings the Aeneid to a new generation of readers, retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original Latin as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth.

An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, the Aeneid redefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. 2 The first six of the poems twelve books tell the story of Aeneass wanderings from Troy to. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire. The Aeneid (/ n i d / Latin: Aeneis aenes) is a Latinepic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, 1 that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself-all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epicįleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome.
