Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature now in a beautiful
clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith Virgil's Aeneid inspired by Homer and
the inspiration for Dante and Milton is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western
life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and
father of the Roman race. In telling a story of dispossession and defeat love and war he
portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering in its physicality and its mystery.
