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The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, 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. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy. The poem's second half tells 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 Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and his description as a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned the Aeneid into a compelling founding myth or national epic that tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic Wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues, and legitimised the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes, and gods of Rome and Troy.
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"A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow."
-The New York Times Book Review (front page review)

"Fagles's new version of Virgil's epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem's Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil's distinctive voice."
-The New Yorker

"Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid."
-J. M. Coetzee

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Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known as Virgil, was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic. In his comparatively short life he became the supreme poet of his age, whose Ա𾱻gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks’, celebrating their city’s origins and the creation of their empire. Virgil is also credited  with authoring two other major works of Latin literature, the Dzܱand the ұǰ.

Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time ԻEssays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ Aug. 18 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.

Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy—in Roman mythology the founding act of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through hell and purgatory.

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  • Lucy
    5.0 out of 5 stars #1 read of the month!
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    Incredible book and a great addition! This translation was an awesome one and the book arrived in great condition.
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  • Ian McKillop
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic
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    Another classic story that has "stood the test of time"
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent transaction
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  • Yun Han
    5.0 out of 5 stars Came in good condition. Better than expected as the cover was ...
    Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2014
    Came in good condition. Better than expected as the cover was exactly the same as I hoped it would have been and not as seen in the picture.
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  • Socratonic
    3.0 out of 5 stars Form vs Function
    Reviewed in Canada on July 2, 2009
    Though Fagles has very nicely bound (deluxe indeed!) translations of the Odyssey and the Iliad, and now the Aeneid (and I have to admit, I did succumb to the aesthetic lure of the first two), I found that translator Fitzgerald is a much better read for the Aeneid, and cheaper too! The Aeneid
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  • Dakota
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good translations
    Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2021
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  • Thomas Clancy
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good book seller
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2025
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    Book arrived in good condition, no complaints!
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  • Jill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Honoring Rome
    Reviewed in Italy on April 19, 2022
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    The Aeneid is an incomplete epic poem written by the poet and philosopher Virgil, who after ten years of work he unfortunately gets ill and indicates that the poem must be destroyed but the emperor Augustus published it anyway, considering the poem a celebration of Rome's glories.

    The story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) who has been chosen by the Gods to find Italy, becoming the precursor of the Roman people. Consisting of twelve books, narrate of the conflict between life and destiny, the meaning of our actions and the suffering of human being. It's full of Homeric references, indeed books I-VI tell about Aeneas travels, similar to Odysseus's adventures, meanwhile books VII-XII narrate of war's events similar to the Iliad. As a hero Aeneas is different from the Homeric models of Achilles and Ulysses, described as a valiant and mature leader famous for his pietas, the Latin term which the Romans used to express the greatest virtues and moral ideas (those that Augustus was trying to restore).

    There are books I enjoyed more than others; I enjoyed reading about a female warrior character like Camilla in the novel, never read nothing like this in epic poems before, and of course about the two lovers' tragedy of Nisus and Euryalus serving under Aeneas.
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  • Nikolas
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    pleasing to read
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  • HFM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Energised, high octane drama! Fagles' translation is superb, and the packaging is sumptuous.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 28, 2014
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    PLEASE BE AWARE ~ This review is for the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition only. 鶹 have replicated my review on the Oxford Classics edition webpage which is inaccurate.

    If I'd gone on the strength of the pitiful reviews on here, I'd never have bought this version and would, instead, have opted for perhaps the Oxford Classics version. However, a personal twist of fate (American partner bought this, and I wanted to keep abreast) meant me purchasing this over another. I can't speak highly enough, especially given the trepidation I felt before receiving it. Fagles' translation is superb, and for anyone new to Aeneid, you're in for a serious treat. If the Aeneid was a film, it would be something high octane, probably directed by Ridley Scott or James Cameron (the good ones!). The language is powerful, luxurious, surging forward off the pages. Fagles' use of present tense does not damage the experience for me whatsoever. If anything, it brings the experience of this adventure to the fore. In short, a page-turner. It's exciting.

    Take, for example, this wonderful early description of King Aeolus' Winds that he keeps locked up:

    "With such anger seething inside her fiery heart
    the goddess reached Aeolia, breeding-ground of storms,
    their home swarming with raging gusts from the South.
    Here in a vast cave King Aeolus rules the winds,
    brawling to break free, howling in full gale force
    as he chains them down in their dungeon, shackled fast.
    They bluster in protest, roaring round their prison bars
    with a mountain above them all, booming with their rage.
    But high in his stronghold Aeolus wields his scepter,
    soothing their passions, tempering their fury.
    Should he fail, surely they'd blow the world away,
    hurling the land and sea and deep sky through space.
    Fearing this, the almighty Father banished the winds
    to that black cavern, piled above them a mountain mass
    and imposed on all a king empowered, by binding pact,
    to rein them back on command or let them gallop free."

    Stunning.
    I have to say, Penguin have done a lovely job with the deluxe classic editions they're printing. Mine has a different, golden cover, and the page edges are milled. I'm not sure what this edition is like, but it is also a deluxe edition so I imagine it's pretty sumptuous. (Edit ~ the stock photo now shows the same version I have).

    Incidentally, the reviews on amazon.com are far more balanced and informing and if you're deliberating over which edition might suit you best, you could do worse than taking stock of what folks the other side of the pond are saying about this.
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    Reviewed in Brazil on January 5, 2024
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