ISBN: | 9780394725963 |
Publisher: | Vintage |
Published: | 1 August, 1984 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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After half a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas – Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided 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, falling tragically in love with...
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