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The Aeneid

VirgilWest, David(Introduction by)West, David(Translated by)
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Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithVirgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture.

Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race.

In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering, in its physicality and its mystery.

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Penguin Classics
0141996331 / 9780141996332
Hardback
873.01
05/11/2020
United Kingdom
English
368 pages
21 cm
Translated from the Latin.