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The Aeneid - Virgil

 

Description: ISBN 0140449329 / Author: Virgil / Genre: Classic Literature / Classic regarding the legendary founding of the Roman civilisation.

Newest Review: ... that glorified Augustus. Therefore, even though The Aeneid is meant to be documenting events in the distant past, Vergil ... more

 ... occassionally brings up modern Rome. The Aeneid's hero is Aeneas who fought at Troy on the Trojan side. He, and the surviving Trojans, have been wandering for some time now as the goddess Juno still despises them, but Jupiter has other plans for them: he has decided that Aeneas will found a city that will ultimately become established as Rome (although not in Aeneas' life time). The Aeneid follows his journey with the first half of the book being a more action-adventure type of affair with Aeneas seeing a Cyclops, goi...more

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GuruOnAMountain
Premium Review The Aeneid - Virgil: Fortune Favours the Bold! (622 words)
by GuruOnAMountain - written on 19.01.05 (Very useful, 275 readings)
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I suppose when most people peruse library/bookshop shelves looking for a weighty tome to pass the hours, the don't automatically jump on ancient Roman literature. They might go as far as Dickens, but most people tend to draw the line at Vergil (in case you're thinking this is a spelling mistake, Vergil can be spelt both this way and as Virgil). It's a shame, really, as it is a rather interesting read. The Aeneid is, in effect, a continuation of the Homeric epic cycle concerning Troy. Before you attack The Aeneid, therefore, you might want to read at least Homer's Iliad and possibly The Odyssey, too. The Aeneid was written at the point in Roman ...

The Aeneid- the role of the gods. (757 words)
by - written on 28.01.01
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The gods are very important to this story. Without the gods’ intervention, the story would merely be about Aeneas’s quest for a new home in Italy. There would be no mention of Dido or Carthage and it would be a very uneventful trip to the future site of Rome. One of the most important gods in this story is Venus. She is Aeneas’s mother, so she has his best interests at heart. When Aeneas is in Troy, Venus appears to him and tells him to get out while he can. This action saves Aeneas life, and gives him a feeling of good luck that he uses to his own advantage. He feels like he is invincible. She directs Aeneas to Carthage in the guise of a huntress. ...

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Premium Review The Aeneid - Virgil: The Aeneid (323 words)
by rob_writer - written on 11.10.00 (Useful, 78 readings)
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Classical civilisations, the art of reviving conversation they said. Not so it would seem when you come to the second year text, the Roman Epic composed by Virgil. The Aeneid is one of the hardest books that you will find in Western civilisation. The text centres on the survivors from Troy, Priam's Asian fortress. The Greeks have already sacked the city which Aeneas tells Dido about in books 2 and 3 (Flash back). The central character is Aeneas, but he seems to be a weak and washie person, he wishes that he had died next to Hector on the killing fields. Fate has decided that Aeneas will found Rome, unfortunately the book is just Virgil ...

 
 
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