The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)

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ISBN: 9780140449327
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Page Count: 307
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Size: 7.80" l x 5.04" w x 0.94"
Series: Penguin Classics

After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honor the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey: to Carthage, where he fell tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae; and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as 'the stateliest measure ever molded by the lips of man'.

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