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With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....

The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno....

Though it is for the sparkling epic, Aeneid, that the Roman poet Virgil is best known, it was these two poems, The Eclogues and Georgics, which first established his reputation....

James Elroy Flecker was a skilled linguist and an expert translator of Latin poetry. The surviving translation consists of lines 1-19 and 264-547 from book six of the Aeneid, which describe Aeneas' encounter with Sibyl and his visit to the underworld....

Virgil's Georgics ranks as one of the most precious pastoral poems ever written, and it has served as a model for its type ever since....

The Aeneid represents one of the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of Western Civilization....

Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy....

Robert Fitzgerald's magnificent translation of Virgil's epic poem was a major literary event at its release in 1983; today it is an acknowledged masterpiece....

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator.....

The Aeneid is one of the greatest works in all of world literature. It is filled with mythology, history...