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Over the past 300 years, much of Virgil’s long-standard ancient biography, based on hearsay and legends, has been challenged. The son of a farmer in northern Italy, Virgil came to be regarded as one of Rome's greatest poets his Aeneid as Rome's national epic. We do not sell books that are missing pages or are ‘falling to pieces’.Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet, best known for three major works-the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics, and the Aeneid-although several minor poems are also attributed to him. All text will be readable and the book will be intact.on both back and front), a moderate watermark, large repaired tear, marked and curling page edges. Moderate: Examples of moderate wear include: more noticeable cover wear (e.g.Minor: Examples of minor wear include: a repaired cover tear or a couple of repaired pages, a creased or scuffed spine or cover, a small watermark, minor marks on page edges.No notes and/or highlighting, but will show signs of wear.minor cosmetic marks, contact, previous owner’s name).

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David West's acclaimed prose translation is accompanied by an updated introduction, Including a new discussion of each of the twelve books of The Aeneid. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as 'the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man'. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey - to Carthage, where he tragically fell in love with Queen Dido then to the underworld, in the company of the Sybil of Cumae and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome.

As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of ancient Greece. After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. Inspired by Homer, and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, Virgil's The Aeneid is an immortal epic poem of the ancient world that lies at the heart of Western life and culture, translated from the Latin with an introduction by David West in Penguin Classics.