![]() We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience. Aeneid Book 1: With scansion, interlinear translation, parsing and notes - Kindle edition by Virgil, P. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Aeneid Book 1: With scansion, interlinear translation, parsing and notes. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. ![]() We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas's wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous pietas, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or national epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the Punic wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy. The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad, composed in the 8th century BC. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's 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. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. Updated on MaTo learn to scan a line of Latin poetry, it helps to know the meter and to use a text that shows the macrons. The Aeneid: Large Print By Virgil The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Author(s): Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
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