The Aeneid

by Virgil

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Virgil’s Aeneid follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where exile, piety, love, war and sacrifice become the mythic prehistory of Rome. Written in the Augustan Age, the poem adapts Homeric epic to Roman identity and asks what human suffering lies beneath imperial destiny.

Historical periods

Ancient Rome Imperial Rome Augustan Age Ancient Greece Ancient World Greek Mythology and Heroic Legend Homeric Epic Tradition Trojan War Epic Tradition Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking

Genres

Classical Literature Mythological Fiction

Historical people

Augustus64 BCE–14 Aeneas Virgil71 BCE–20 BCE