About the book
BOOK SUMMARY
An epic poem about Aeneas, a Trojan hero who travels to Italy to found Rome, encountering storms, love, and the underworld along the way.
Published 19 BCE
Epic Poetry
484 pages
Above Odyssey, below Iliad
April 5, 2026
I would rank this above The Odyssey but below The Iliad. It contained a bit of both of those – an adventurous travel saga in the first half like The Odyssey, and a big war epic in the last half like The Iliad. But I thought the Iliad had more emotional pull, and Homer's similes can't be beat.
I read the hard copy of the Robert Fagles translation while listening to the Scott McGill/Susannah Wright translation on audio, and I actually think I liked Fagles better. Interesting to see how different the various translations can be.
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