The Aeneid The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Virgil Classics)

It's like the Aeneid, in book six of the Aeneid.

Virgil, when he adapts Homer to tell this great epic drawing on stories of the Trojan War and the Odyssey, that explains the beginning, the origins of Rome, the Aeneid is a work of mythology.

And the Aeneid, it's an epic that tells the story of the founding of Rome, how Rome comes to be founded by a band of exiles from Troy.

Since Virgil wrote it, there probably hasn't been a day when people haven't been reading it. It is absolutely the foundational text of European literature.

It's written by Virgil and it is written in where it's the reign is Augustus emperor.

The Aeneid is a great poem. It's a powerful poem, it's a moving poem, it's a complex poem because Virgil is not just writing Augustan propaganda.

It has been a celebration of Augustus and his regime and Rome's destiny and I guess Roman imperialism, you could say.

the most famous example of this would be in the Aeneid, the great epic of Roman beginnings that Virgil writes.

there wasn't a day when someone hadn't read The Aeneid.

they weren't thinking about the literary merit of the Aeneid.

So that was the greatest of all Roman poets, Virgil. ... In that poem, The Aeneid, which is translated there by Robert Fagles, Virgil is taking us back, isn't he, to the legendary beginnings of Carthage.

There are elements of it in Virgil's poem, The Aeneid.

excuse me but actually in Virgil's Aeneid book one line 324 he uses the alternative the alternative poetic form of the word which is the form that Keegan answered with

I'll never forget there's a passage where you know virtual's writing and there's a lot of different backgrounds of what's going on but in the epic poem we know in some day Rome won't exist anywhere either it's stepping back it's it's a fact there really a day America does not exist but being an 18 year old boy with my boy brain and sitting back and looking around and being like this country's not going to exist someday too you know and having that realization the presentness yeah of our lives the instantaneousness of our lives it doesn't just make us you know focused on our phones or screens or who said something it makes us blind and the way humans want to be to very clear facts that this country these people were all gonna die someday anyways as the stoics will tell you they already did but you know better than anybody but this country itself personally we're almost as going to be on and whatever an 18 year old boy's brain is it is malleable you can give it good writing and good perspectives and those magnets they're not gonna hurt you know and so i i've always remembered that moment of looking up stepping back from the book one to think why is virtual putting it in there he's writing to Augustus right and he's trying to get that to him and so like the just even the it's heightened by the sense of like what's the author trying to do here what's the message that they're delivering right

Previously she was on discussing her beautiful readable riveting translation of the Ineid.

And you can check out her new book Plato Goes to China, the Greek classics in Chinese nationalism and do read her translation of Virgil's The Ineid.

I found that absolutely fascinating and I think you're really going to enjoy this interview.

And I'm just finishing her translation of Virgil's The Anteid.

And you can get her new book, the translation of the Ineid, anywhere books are sold, including my bookstore, The Painted Porch here in Bastrop, Texas

I think it's interesting that there is a pragmatic streak to the Stoics that perhaps Seneca embodies most of all, but Athenodorus and Arias do, which is like, governance is a complicated thing.