The Aeneid

Virgil’s epic of Aeneas, the Trojan prince who escapes the fall of Troy, loves and leaves Dido, Queen of Carthage, visits the underworld, and fights in Italy to found the race that will build Rome. Written in Latin between 29 and 19 BC, it is presented here in twelve books in John Dryden’s celebrated English verse translation (1697), with the argument before each book.