'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...'So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any
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Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy where he becomes the founding
ancestor of Rome is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only
with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter Aeneas is
nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno and by thetorments of love
loyalty and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future
for his patron Augustus but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught
up in the fates of others.Frederick Ahl's new translation echoes the Virgilian hexameter in a
thrillingly accurate and engaging style. An Introduction by Elaine Fantham and Ahl's
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