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The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) Book

Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.Read More

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    Virgil's Aeneid inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat love and war he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.

  • Penguin

    'I sing of arms and of the man' After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek.

  • Blackwell

    The first major single-volume edition in English of the pivotal book in Virgil's Aeneid, featuring the expedition of Nisus and Euryalus. Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of...

  • Pickabook

    Virgil, David West (Trans), David West

  • 0140449329
  • 9780140449327
  • Virgil
  • 27 March 2003
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • Rev Ed

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