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The Aeneid
- 360 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1592
- 721 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Aeneid (, ih-NEE-id; Latin: Aeneis) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of its twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the latter six tell of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.
The hero Aeneas was already known to Graeco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad.
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- History
- Classical literature
- Rome
- Legends
- Country life
- Agriculture
- Poetry
- Latin poetry
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