false 12914 165 Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. The Aeneid is Virgil's masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and proclaims her destiny of world dominion. This optimistic vision is accompanied by and undertow of sadness at the price that must be paid in human suffering to secure Rome's future greatness. The tension between the public voice of celebration and the tragic private voice is given full expression both in the doomed love of Dido and Aeneas, and in the fateful clash between the Trojan leader and the Italian hero, Turnus. Hailed by T.S. Eliot as " the classic of all Europe", Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past 2000 years. 288738 book 1 The Aeneid total:5435|5:1444|4:1833|3:1622|2:433|1:103| 5435 20387 7595 406 3 9 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 09:21:01 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:56:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 04:49:12 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 05:20:46 -0800 2007 Expect a lot of "then Aeneas was told he needed to fetch a golden bough. But he could only obtain the bough if he completed such-and-such. So he did. Then he went to the underground world and gave the bough to the boatman, and t...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Mar 09 15:58:24 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 05:10:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Oct 19 20:57:47 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 16:48:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 01 10:55:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 17:25:10 -0700 2009 Aeneid is fabulous. He abridged it,so presumably what was left out is less interesting. What is left is a fast-paced epic that reads like action-and-gore-packed war movie in the final few books. This was a read-aloud drama for a home-schooling history class, and th...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon May 25 18:43:08 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 18:45:54 -0700 2009
This epic work begins with the destruction...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Mar 23 19:38:51 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 13:35:23 -0700 2009 The epic song of wars and men. If blood, guts and epic poetry are you thing, this book is for you. Given the introductory words of the story, it is shocking how Aneas is pushed along by the Fates and the Gods, never does he have much free will or freedom of action. Rome, we are told, was founded o...more...]]> 4 1 false true Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 21:26:09 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 12:19:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 10:28:22 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 08 09:19:51 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:54:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 17:47:28 -0700 2009 Once more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Jul 17 16:18:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 16:28:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 08 08:31:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 08:31:04 -0700 2009 Powells: "Just two years ago, Robert Fagles, shortly before his death, set the bar very high for translating Vergil's Aeneid. Yet already the scholar-poet Sarah Ruden has soared over the bar. She does this despite submission to a trying discipline. She decides to translate one-line-per-one-line...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Sat May 23 17:00:56 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 17:06:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 05:56:14 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 08:32:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri Aug 14 10:44:17 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 10:50:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:17:15 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:29:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 22:41:19 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 22:47:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Sun Feb 24 18:32:23 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:37:39 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 14:37:39 -0800 2008 http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2008...). I would give anything to hear what Antoine Boisvert thinks of it...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 19 21:00:13 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 21:07:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 09:52:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 10:05:38 -0800 2009
However, my personal opinion is as follows:
I did not enjoy it as much as The Odyssey. It was too dry and political in the beginning and then turned into a Roman Iliad, and that's just...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=12914