The Aeneid

welcome to...the A(UGUST)ENEID. i know this is my worst title / month pun ever. i know it's actually not even really a pun. but in my defense, august does not lend itself to any of the classics i have interest in. so there. anyway. welcome back to PROJECT LONG CLASSICS, in which i read an intimidating......more

Impossible to rank a book that is so important, that has so many problems, that holds moments of deep and beautiful simile and metaphor, that treats its lead with shocking inconsistency, whose ending is an eruption of modern plot that redeems the whole book. The Ferry translation is quick and good an......more

As shattered legendary Troy fell the fires engulfs the edifices and smoke flows, the shocked survivors flee dodging lances, swords, stepping over a plethora of rubble, dismembered bodies but where to go? Aeneas a member of the royal family seeing his family butchered, gathers a few Trojans, quickly......more

There are plenty of reviews here telling you why you should or shouldn't read book X. This review of Virgil's "Aeneid," the largely-completed first century BC nationalist epic poem that recounts the Trojan War and Aeneas's role in the eventual founding of Rome, will tell you instead why you should r......more

Book Review 3 out of 5 stars to The Aeneid, a classic work written in 17 BC by Virgil. In The Aeneid, Virgil creates two vastly different archetypal heroes named Turnus and Aeneas. Aeneas is a Trojan prince who has hopes of finding a new Troy in the land of Latium, but he runs into an an......more