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Composed of 9896 lines in dactylic hexameter, The Aeneid is a classic Latin poem written over 2000 years ago telling the story of Aeneas - who is also a character in The Iliad - who fled the destruction of Troy and settled in Italy, becoming an ancestor of the Romans. Most translations choose to sacrifice technical accuracy for poetic form, but this translation by Frederick Ahl, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, goes the o ...more
Composed of 9896 lines in dactylic hexameter, The Aeneid is a classic Latin poem written over 2000 years ago telling the story of Aeneas - who is also a character in The Iliad - who fled the destruction of Troy and settled in Italy, becoming an ancestor of the Romans. Most translations choose to sacrifice technical accuracy for poetic form, but this translation by Frederick Ahl, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, goes the o ...more
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Aeneas is a faithful husband, a loving father, and a devoted son. He's a good soldier too, and when the city of Troy is threatened, all he wants to do is to defend his home. For ten long years he fights against the invading Greeks. Then one day the ghost of a long-dead comrade appears to him on the battlefield, telling him to stop fighting and run. The future of the Trojan people lies elsewhere, and if Aeneas is to lead them, he must survive. So, with his frai ...more
Aeneas is a faithful husband, a loving father, and a devoted son. He's a good soldier too, and when the city of Troy is threatened, all he wants to do is to defend his home. For ten long years he fights against the invading Greeks. Then one day the ghost of a long-dead comrade appears to him on the battlefield, telling him to stop fighting and run. The future of the Trojan people lies elsewhere, and if Aeneas is to lead them, he must survive. So, with his frai ...more
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