Vergils Aeneis (1891)

Vergilii Maronis Aeneis est poema epicum quod de viro nomine Aenea agit, qui a Troia post fata bello Troiano evasit et Romam navigavit ut ibi urbem condere posset. Poema constat ex duodecim libris, quorum primus et sextus de Troia agunt, secundus et tertius de peregrinationibus Aeneae post Troiam, quartus de Dido regina Carthaginiensi et amoris historia inter Aeneam et Didonem, quintus de funere Anchisae patris Aeneae, septimus et octavus de Aeneae regno in Latium et belli cum Turno rege Rutulorum, nonus de descensu Aeneae ad inferos, decimus et undecimus de belli continuo, et ultimus de victoria Aeneae et condicione Romae. Opus Vergilii Aeneis est consideratum unum ex maximis poema epica in litteratura Latina et est legatum Romanum.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that The Aeneid was unfinished and expressed a desire to have it burned, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil's other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also considered masterpieces.