The Aeneid

welcome to...the A(UGUST)ENEID. i know this is my worst title / month pun ever. i know it's actually not even really a pun. but in my defense, august does not lend itself to any of the classics i have interest in. so there. anyway. welcome back to PROJECT LONG CLASSICS, in which i read an intimidating......more

Impossible to rank a book that is so important, that has so many problems, that holds moments of deep and beautiful simile and metaphor, that treats its lead with shocking inconsistency, whose ending is an eruption of modern plot that redeems the whole book. The Ferry translation is quick and good an......more

There are plenty of reviews here telling you why you should or shouldn't read book X. This review of Virgil's "Aeneid," the largely-completed first century BC nationalist epic poem that recounts the Trojan War and Aeneas's role in the eventual founding of Rome, will tell you instead why you should r......more