The Aeneid
“The national epic of ancient Rome. Virgil’s long-renowned narrative follows the Trojan warrior Aeneas as he carries his family from his besieged, fallen home, stops in Carthage for a doomed love affair, visits the underworld, and founds in Italy, through difficult combat, the settlements that will become first the Roman republic and then the empire Virgil knew.”
Publishers Weekly
The masterpiece of Rome’s greatest poet, Virgil’s Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature.
The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno. Finally reaching Italy, their leader, Aeneas, is forced to fight a bitter war against the natives to establish the foundations from which Rome is destined to rise.
This magnificent poem, in the modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by David Collins.
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