![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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’.ĭavid West’s acclaimed prose translation is accompanied by his revised introduction and individual prefaces to the twelve books of The Aeneid.įor more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven year journey – to Carthage, falling tragically in love with Queen Dido then to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek. ![]() 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. ![]()
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