(Summary by Leni)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. This is the recording of J.W.MacKail's prose translation. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, while the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ victorious war upon the Latins. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. a model of how to render Latin poetry in English. The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.Vivid and haunting. Read in English by Bob Neufeld TRUEBRIT Mary J Kelseigh readerfromtexas MorganScorpion Peter Tucker Lawrence KHand Mary Schneider For those who care about such things, of the sixteen uses of pius Aeneas in the Aeneid, all but two follow a single-syllable word at the beginning of a line. Although it was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, the poem is more than early imperial propaganda. LibriVox recording of The Aeneid by Virgil. In addition to the words cited above, Ruden also translates pius as good, righteous, faithful, and dutiful. Virgil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, has been of continuing importance to Western literature.
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