Virgil: The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) [2003] paperback ELEAR Two years later

Two years later

how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself

obsession and intellectual brilliance

hopeful and disillusioned

Virgil: The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) [2003] paperback ELEAR Two years later'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original' The Times After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. 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