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Aeneid, The (Penguin Classics)
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SKU
9780140449327
By:
VIRGIL
Publisher:
PENGUIN
Code:
9780140449327
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy,Virgil wrote the 'Aeneid' to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor.As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece.It tells of Aeneas,survivor of the sack of troy,and of his seven-year journey.
