The Aeneid /
Virgil
- New York : Penguin Books, c2006
- 484 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Virgil: The Aeneid -- Book One. Safe haven after storm -- Book Two. The final hours of troy -- Book Three. Landfalls, Ports of call -- Book Four. The tragic queen of carthage -- Book Five. Funeral games for anchises -- Book Six. The kingdom of the dead -- Book Seven. beachhead in latium, armies gather -- Book Eight. The shield of aeneas -- Book Nine. Enemy at the gates -- Book Ten. Captains fight and die -- Book Eleven. Camilla's finest hour -- Book Twelve. The sword decides all.
A story of arms and heroism that follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people.