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The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0140449329
ISBN-13 9780140449327
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 27th, 2003
Print length 368 Pages
Weight 268 grams
Dimensions 13.90 x 19.60 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification: Classical texts Poetry by individual poets
Ksh 2,000.00 Werezi Extended Catalogue

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Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.

''The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original'' The Times

After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey: to Carthage, where he falls tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld,; and finally to Italy, where he founds Rome. 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''.

Translated with an Introduction by DAVID WEST

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