Aeneid | Aeneid

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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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