The Aeneid - Virgil Reviews

It is impossible to state the importance of this book to Western culture and society. The Aeneid is Virgil's epic tale of Aeneas, a Trojan prince who flees Troy when it is burned by the Greeks and goes on to found the dynasty of Rome in Italy, complete with an ill-fated romance between Aeneas and Dido, Queen of Carthage, a full chorus of gods and ...  Read the complete review

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). ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review