‘The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original’ The Times.
Composed in the wake of a century of devastating civil war, Virgil’s Aeneid was written to honour the emperor Augustus by celebrating his legendary forebear Aeneas — and to furnish Rome with an epic tradition worthy of standing alongside the literature of Greece. Its hero is Aeneas, a survivor of the fall of Troy, whose seven-year odyssey takes him first to Carthage, where a tragic love affair with Queen Dido ends in ruin, then down into the underworld, and finally to the shores of Italy, where he will lay the foundations of Rome itself. Tennyson called it ‘the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man’ — a poem of exile and loss, of passion and bloodshed, and of a destiny that cannot be escaped.
Translated with an Introduction by DAVID WEST
ISBN 13: 9780140449327
Author: Virgil
