The Aeneid

Name: The Aeneid
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Virgil
ISBN: 9781843798873

Author: Virgil

Narrator: David Collins

Unabridged: 13 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 05/05/2015

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Epic Poetry

Synopsis

The masterpiece of Rome’s greatest poet, Virgil’s Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature. The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno. Finally reaching Italy, their leader Aeneas is forced to fight a bitter war against the natives to establish the foundations from which Rome is destined to rise. This magnificent poem, in the modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by David Collins.

About Virgil

Virgil (70 BCE-19 BCE) is considered one of Rome's greatest poets. He is best known for three major works: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the Aeneid, although several minor poems are also attributed to him.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on August 31, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Adam on July 17, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Libby on July 08, 2008

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