The Aeneid

by Virgil (Author); Knight, W. F. Jackson (Translator); Knight, W. F. Jackson (Introduction by)

• ISBN13: 9780140440515
• ISBN10: 0140440518
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1956-12-30
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

"Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by the torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others." "Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in an accurate style."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(16)
THE AENEID
The Trojans reach Carthage	27	(24)
Aeneas' Narration -- The Sack of Troy	51	(24)
Aeneas' Narration continued -- His Travels	75	(22)
The Tragedy of Dido	97	(22)
The Funeral Games	119	(28)
The Visit to the Underworld	147	(28)
War in Latium	175	(26)
The Site of the Future Rome	201	(24)
Siege of the Trojan Camp	225	(26)
The Relief and Pitched Battle	251	(28)
Councils of War: Pitched Battle Again	279	(30)
Decision: the Death of Turnus	309	(30)
List of Variations from the Oxford Text	339	(4)
Glossary of Names	343	(19)
Select Bibliography	362	(1)
Maps	363	(3)
Genealogical Table of the Royal Houses of Troy and Greece	366