The Aeneid by Virgil

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy.

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	The Aeneid	Mass Market Paperback	2048808	$5.95	$5.98
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	563462	$12.45	$2.55
	The Aeneid	Paperback	1538260	$8.95	$5.09
	The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)	Kindle Edition	49515	$1.99		2003
	The Aeneid (Vintage Classics)	Kindle Edition	65836	$7.99		2013
	THE AENEID OF VIRGIL	Paperback	1009348	$9.95	$0.01	1984
	Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics)	Kindle Edition	347748	$7.55		2008
	The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	639944	$6.15	$0.01	1956
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Paperback	624579	$17.99	$5.98	2007
	The Aeneid	Audio CD	8138255	$24.47		2005
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	2335069	$5.48	$2.00
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Paperback	7207843	$7.09		2012
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Paperback	1392723	$8.50	$0.01	1982
	The Aeneid (Signet Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	1828729	$9.93	$0.01	2002
	Parsed Vergil: Completely Scanned-Parsed Vergil's Aeneid Book I	Paperback	1758791	$39.00	$33.06	2005
	Aeneid of Virgil, The	Paperback	1484088	$11.00	$0.01	1953
	The Aeneid (Mentor Series)	Mass Market Paperback	2502434	$2.99	$0.01	1961
	The Aeneid	Paperback	874522	$9.99		2014
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	753057	$6.40	$0.01
	The Aeneid	Audible Audio Edition	5174	$25.95		2006
	The Aeneid illustrated	Paperback	1636080	$14.89		2021
	Aeneid of Virgil (Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	86132			2014
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	109587	$0.99		2013
	The Aeneid (Webster's Japanese Thesaurus Edition)	Paperback	5583594	$23.36		2008
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Mass Market Paperback	4126197	$120.25	$0.55
	Aeneid	Paperback	81802	$8.14	$4.29	2005
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	826195	$0.99		2008
	Aeneid (Everyman)	Paperback	2323277	$2.29	$0.01	1998
	The Aeneid (Enriched Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	2794658	$2.51	$1.28	2009
	The Aeneid (Collector's Library)	Hardcover	3050169	$2.78	$3.86	2004
	The Aeneid (Tantor Unabridged Classics)	Audio CD	3557618	$19.54	$19.59	2010
	Aeneid	Kindle Edition	124417	$8.48		2005
	The Aeneid	Audio CD	2177228	$3.22	$6.24	2006
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	2250254	$10.50	$6.62	2006
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	1252078			2019
	The Aeneid	Audio CD	430642	$4.75	$4.74	2006
	The Aeneid (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)	Paperback	6868245	$23.36	$64.76	2006
	The Aeneid (Penguin Clothbound Classics)	Hardcover	636150	$24.00		2021
	The Essential Aeneid	Hardcover	483675	$22.88	$7.12	2006
	The Aeneid	Paperback	722325	$8.89	$0.01	1983
	Aeneid: Books I-VI	Paperback	558407	$21.00		2015
	The Aeneid	Paperback	710966	$3.36	$0.02	1985
	THE AENEID OF VIRGIL (Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	250204			2015
	Aeneid (Hackett Classics)	Hardcover	1194066	$36.95	$4.96	2005
	Virgil: Aeneid Book XII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	875719	$34.99	$30.79	2012
	THE AENEID	Kindle Edition	278951			2016
	Virgil: Aeneid IV (Latin Texts)	Paperback	763469	$29.95	$16.50	2007
	The Aeneid	Paperback	24614920	$12.99		2021
	The Aeneid: Virgil's Greatest Hits	Paperback	1363382	$8.39	$8.18	2011
	The Aeneid	Paperback	1851444	$18.00		2022
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	290063			2020
	The Aeneid (Translated): Latin and English	Kindle Edition	1104385			2019
	The Aeneid of Virgil (Bantam Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	98679	$2.50	$1.09	1981
	Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII (Bks. 7-12)	Paperback	224130	$28.38	$24.67	1998
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	342418	$5.99		2020
	The Aeneid (Focus Classical Library)	Hardcover	847969	$34.95	$39.84	2020
	Virgil: Aeneid Book 8 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) (Latin and English Edition)	Paperback	1443458	$29.00	$16.36	2008
	The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	15359	$13.25	$5.18	2008
	The Aeneid (Vintage Classics)	Paperback	11610	$9.51	$1.44	1990
	The Aeneid (Macmillan Collector's Library)	Kindle Edition	739772			2020
	Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics)	Paperback	462023	$2.99	$1.53	2008
	Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI (Latin Edition) (Bks. 1-6) (English and Latin Edition)	Paperback	39552	$37.79	$18.63	1998
	The Aeneid (Latin Edition)	Paperback	548543	$8.99		2010
	The Aeneid: By Virgil : Illustrated & Unabridged (Free Bonus Audiobook)	Kindle Edition	774043			2015
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Paperback	11917850	$16.60	$21.76	2007
	The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	128406			2006
	The Aeneid	Paperback	306076	$10.99	$10.99	2019
	THE AENEID (complete, unabridged, and in verse)	Kindle Edition	401617	$0.99		2013
	The Aeneid	Paperback	1795042	$7.19		2013
	The Aeneid: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version)	Kindle Edition	812090			2015
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	552321			2017
	The Aeneid (Annotated) (Illustrated)	Kindle Edition	484618	$0.99		2008
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	3199222	$14.12	$17.88	2018
	The Aeneid (Latin and English)	Paperback	868508	$18.95		2019
	The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics)	Paperback	398670	$2.99	$1.25	2006
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	1486542	$28.00		2020
	The Aeneid	Kindle Edition	569608	$3.99		2020
	The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	11749	$9.90	$8.33	2010
	Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 (Loeb Classical Library)	Hardcover	99768	$23.12	$14.00	1999
	Virgil: Aeneid I-VI (Bks. 1-6)	Paperback	378828	$30.67	$19.34	1998
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	316660	$19.99	$7.97	2006
	The Aeneid of Virgil	Paperback	1031485	$8.95		2013
	The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)	Paperback	307610	$4.99	$1.59	2003
	The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)	Kindle Edition	107443	$4.39		2003
	The Aeneid (Everyman's Library)	Hardcover	460381	$12.00	$1.95	1992
	The Aeneid	Audio CD	1505943	$16.51	$12.36	2005
	The Aeneid	Audio CD	578957	$3.73	$3.35	2008
	Vergil's Aeneid (Latin Edition)	Hardcover	694671	$29.50	$28.99	1999
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	1468983	$9.39		2020
	The Æneid of Virgil	Hardcover	1419055	$25.99	$12.06	2016
	The Aeneid (Hardcover)	Hardcover	3132585	$15.26	$17.18	2018
	The Aeneid	Hardcover	119978	$22.17	$13.99	2017
	The Aeneid of Virgil: Books I-Vi. (Latin Edition)	Paperback	3604192	$41.75	$53.16	2013
	Aeneid: Bks. 1-6 (Latin Edition)	Hardcover	4509202	$232.76	$41.70
	The Aeneid (Focus Classical Library)	Paperback	1889116	$17.00	$25.47	2020
	The Aeneid	Paperback	181564	$10.58	$6.04	2009
	Virgil: Aeneid Book IX (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)	Paperback	1248954	$36.77	$24.00	1994