The sketch on the book's cover is Aeneas, the hero of the epic, carrying his elderly father through burning city of Troy. I will try to post thoughts on each book of the 12 books, but do not feel constrained by that.įinally here's an image of the Robert Fagles's translation: So without further ado, post your thoughts as we go. I will say that I loved the Fitzgerald translation but since Fagles did such a great job on translating both The Illiad and The Odyssey, I just had to check out how he does with a Latin text. I will be reading the relatively new Robert Fagles translation ( ), but i have previously read the Robert Fitzgerald translation (). In addition, he looks back to Homer as a model for his epic, and while there are several parallels to Homer, it is quite different as well. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), who had already established his greatness of Roman poetry through his previous works of The Eclogues and The Georgics, looked back at the chaos of that century and tried to make sense of it by creating an epic of the founding of Rome and linking the founding to his contemporary events. Written at the end of the first century B.C., it came at the end of the crises of the Roman Republic where Augustus firmly gained control of the empire and created the governing system of the Principate. It is one of the great epics of ancient times, and it is one of the most influential works in history. I am starting this thread to discuss Virgil's The Aeneid.
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