This classic epic poem tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travels to Italy to become the ancestor of the Romans. Along the way, he faces many trials and tribulations in battles against the...
In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love...
This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas - like Odysseus in Odyssey XI - visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his 'Homeric' past, the wanderings he has undergone...