num_pages: 51
description: Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, is the hero in this archtypal story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, in which Virgil portrays human life in all its nobility and suffering.
language: English
title: The Aeneid
titlecomplete: The Aeneid
characters: Pallas (son of Evander), Dido of Carthage, Venus (goddess), Anchises, Juno (Goddess), Misenus, Aeneas, Ascanius, Lavinia (mythology), Vulcan (God), Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Ixion, Mercury (God), Iris (Goddess), Neoptolemus, Charon (mythology), Priam, Sybil (Ancient oracle), Camilla (mythology), Jupiter (God)
genres: Classics, Epic, Fantasy, Fiction, School, Ancient, Classic Literature, Literature, Mythology, Poetry
ratings_count: 125991
places: Italy, Rome, Carthage, Sicily, Troy
publisher: Penguin Audio