Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

by Virgil

24 chapters13h 5mEnglish

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The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. 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 treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Virgil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Carthaginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)

Chapters (24)

1Book I, Part 1

1821

2Book I, Part 2

1807

3Book II, Part 1

1828

4Book II, Part 2

1761

5Book III, Part 1

1642

6Book III, Part 2

1684

7Book IV, Part 1

1881

8Book IV, Part 2

1716

9Book V, Part 1

1934

10Book V, Part 2

1948

11Book VI, Part 1

2180

12Book VI, Part 2

2291

13Book VII, Part 1

1924

14Book VII, Part 2

2023

15Book VIII, Part 1

1594

16Book VIII, Part 2

1793

17Book IX, Part 1

2004

18Book IX, Part 2

1753

19Book X, Part 1

2206

20Book X, Part 2

2243

21Book XI, Part 1

2151

22Book XI, Part 2

2234

23Book XII, Part 1

2451

24Book XII, Part 2

2265

Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

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Chapters (24)

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