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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The Aeneid Mass Market Paperback 2048808 $5.95 $5.98
The Aeneid Hardcover 563462 $12.45 $2.55
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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 Paperback 306076 $10.99 $10.99 2019
The Aeneid of Virgil Paperback 7207843 $7.09 2012
AENEID (Annotated) Kindle Edition 736156 $0.99 2013
The Aeneid Paperback 6557971 $7.34 $9.86 2018
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
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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
The Aeneid Kindle Edition 187937 $2.99 2020
Aeneid (Hackett Classics) Hardcover 727925 $27.97 $11.98 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
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Virgil: Aeneid VI (Latin Texts) Paperback 1247444 $26.75 $13.53 2003
The Aeneid: Virgil's Greatest Hits Paperback 1363382 $8.39 $8.18 2011
The works of Virgil, in Latin and English The Æneid translated by Christopher Pitt: the Eclogues and Georgics, with notes v 1 of 4 (Latin Edition) Paperback 2405605 $30.99 2012
The Aeneid Kindle Edition 21737 $12.99 2021
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 (Macmillan Collector's Library) Kindle Edition 739772 2020
Aeneid (Hackett Classics) Kindle Edition 305949 $9.99 2005
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 (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 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) 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
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Vergil's Aeneid (Latin Edition) Hardcover 694671 $29.50 $28.99 1999
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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
The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) Paperback 59288 $6.98 $1.45 1990
Aeneid: Bks. 1-6 (Latin Edition) Hardcover 4509202 $232.76 $41.70
Virgil: Aeneid Book XII (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) Hardcover 3517299 $90.16 $130.73 2012
The Aeneid (Focus Classical Library) Paperback 1889116 $17.00 $25.47 2020
The Aeneid Paperback 181564 $10.58 $6.04 2009
Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback 384535 $9.69 $2.46 2008
The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics) Paperback 355898 $11.00 $2.22 2006
The Aeneid (Classics Illustrated) Paperback 158344 $6.13 $5.75 2019
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) Paperback 264357 $7.59 $2.25 2003
Virgil: Aeneid Book IX (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) Paperback 1248954 $36.77 $24.00 1994