Aeneid (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Virgil
- First Published: 1553
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Epic
- Time of Work: After the Trojan War
- Setting: The Mediterranean
- Principal Characters: Aeneas, Dido, Anna, Ascanius, Anchises, Venus, Juno, Cumaean Sibyl, Latinus, Lavinia, Turnus, Evander, Pallas
- Genres: Poetry, Epic, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, War, Hell, Heroes or heroism, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Greek or Roman times, Rome, Braggarts, Oracles, Trojan War
- Locales: Mediterranean, Carthage, ancient, Troy, ancient
The Story:
Aeneas, driven by storm to the shores of Libya, was welcomed gladly by the people of Carthage. Because Carthage was the favorite city of Juno, divine enemy of Aeneas, Venus had Cupid take the form of Ascanius, son of Aeneas, so that the young god of love might warm the heart of proud Dido, and Aeneas come to no harm in her land. At the close of a welcoming feast, Aeneas was prevailed upon to recount his adventures.
He described the fall of his native Troy at the hands of the Greeks after a ten-year siege, telling how the armed Greeks had entered the city in...
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