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The Aeneid by Virgil & Fitzgerald, Robert is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Aeneid about?
A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture. “Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil’s telling, Aeneas’s heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature—the role of duty and self-sacrifice, the place of love and passion in human life, the relationship between art and violence, the tension between immigrant and indigenous people, and the way new foundations are so often built upon the wreckage of those who came before. Throughout the course of Western history, the Aeneid has affirmed our best and worst intentions and forced us to confront our deepest contradictions. Shadi Bartsch, Guggenheim Laureate, award-winning translator, and chaired pr
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Virgil & Fitzgerald, Robert
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group; Random House
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781984854100
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, Language Learning, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.81 / 5 (113 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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