Epic

Aeneidos

by Virgil

Aeneas escapes burning Troy with his father on his shoulders and his son by the hand, and after seven years at sea founds the line that will become Rome. Virgil spent eleven years on it and asked, as he was dying, for it to be burned; Augustus refused. Dido’s last night in Book IV has been making readers cry for two thousand years.

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Reading time

About 4 hr 15 min

Where to find it

The Latin Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #227. In the public domain in the United States.