Aeneid Penguin Classics

Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat love and war he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.|Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat love and war he portrayed human life ...|Virgil (70-19BC) studied rhetoric and philosophy in Rome where he became a court poet. As well as The Aeneid his Eclogues earned him the reputation as the finest Latin poet.Before his retirement David West taught Classics at the University of Newcastle.