The Aeneid (Annotated)

Virgil's The Aeneid is Rome's foundational epic, narrating the Trojan hero Aeneas's flight from ruined Troy, his Mediterranean wanderings, and his destined struggle to establish the ancestry of Rome in Italy. Written in stately dactylic hexameter and deeply conversant with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the poem transforms Greek epic inheritance into a distinctly Roman meditation on duty, empire, memo...