num_pages: 353
description: Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering. This is a prose translation, but David West believes that contemporary English prose has resources of power, subtlety and music that can go some way to catching the spirit as well as the letter of Virgil's great original.
language: English
title: The Aeneid
titlecomplete: The Aeneid
characters: Juno (Goddess), Sybil (Ancient oracle), Neoptolemus, Lavinia (mythology), Ixion, Misenus, Priam, Anchises, Pallas (son of Evander), Vulcan (God), Iris (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Aeneas, Ascanius, Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Venus (goddess), Charon (mythology), Dido of Carthage, Camilla (mythology), Mercury (God)
genres: Mythology, School, Poetry, Literature, Classic Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Epic, Fiction, Ancient
ratings_count: 125982
places: Sicily, Troy, Carthage, Italy, Rome
publisher: Penguin Classics