The Aeneid - Likewise Book Reviews

"Roman self insert Homer fanfic."

"The Fitzgerald translation is a wonderful one"

"read for classic bookclub last year. everyone gave it 5/5"

"The poetry is sick but I stopped reading after book 6 "

"Definitely not the type of book I would read on my own, but read most of this for a Classics seminar I was taking. It is surprisingly entertaining and quite interesting."

"As I've studied this book in conjunction with The Iliad and The Odyssey, I am struck by the depth to Aeneas as an epic hero. He is driven not by a desire for glory, mortal or immortal, but by his piety and willingness to suffer for the greater good - a quality that will be revered in Roman statesmen. As I look at our upcoming election, I am saddened by a lack of statesmenship in our candidates. I am not sure I would trust either of these with the charge to leave Carthiginian Dido behind, travel the depths of the underworld, seeking to understand the order of the cosmos, fight furies and shipwrecks, battle enemies personally, grieve eloquently, and stand in wonder at art depicting the past and future. No wonder King Latinus said, "Here is the man!" But of course, we aren't founding Rome. How sad."