![]() Now scarce the Trojan fleet, with sails and oars, Such length of labor for so vast a frame. Such time, such toil, requir’d the Roman name, Were toss’d by storms, and scatter’d thro’ the main. She drove the remnants of the Trojan host Īnd sev’n long years th’ unhappy wand’ring train The grace bestow’d on ravish’d Ganymed, 13Įlectra’s glories, 14 and her injur’d bed.įor this, far distant from the Latian coast 15 Of partial Paris, and her form disdain’d 12 Nor could forget the war she wag’d of late 11įor conqu’ring Greece against the Trojan state.īesides, long causes working in her mind,ĭeep graven in her heart the doom remain’d ![]() She ponder’d this, and fear’d it was in fate Should on the necks of all the nations lay. Nor thus confin’d, the yoke of sov’reign sway Her Carthage ruin, and her tow’rs deface 10 That times to come should see the Trojan race Here stood her chariot here, if Heav’n were kind, Stout for the war, and studious of their trade: Involv’d his anxious life in endless cares,Ĭan heav’nly minds such high resentment show,Īgainst the Tiber’s 8 mouth, but far away, What goddess was provok’d, and whence her hate įor what offense the Queen of Heav’n began O Muse! the causes and the crimes relate His banish’d gods restor’d to rites divine,Īnd settled sure succession in his line,6įrom whence the race of Alban 7 fathers come, The Latian 4 realm, and built the destin’d town 5 Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, KelleyĮxpell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Because of the widespread use of Latin in the European Middle Ages, Virgil’s perspective on history (and figures that he considered to be historical) exerted considerable influence on writers who followed him.Įdited, Annotated, and Compiled by Rhonda L. In Virgil’s time, Greek literature enjoyed more prestige than Roman literature, so the Aeneid attempts in part to revise and replace earlier Greek epics the first six books of the Aeneid are a conscious parallel to Homer’s Odyssey, and the last six books refigure Homer’s Iliad. Virgil’s execution of the story is more complex, recognizing as it does that the price for the foundation of Rome is a steep one. The epic was commissioned by the first Roman emperor, Augustus Caesar, to justify why Rome was no longer a republic: According to the story, the gods themselves planned for Rome to become an empire long before Rome ever existed, and legend is rewritten so that the Trojan Aeneas (who appears in Homer’s Iliad) becomes the model Roman citizen. The story centers on Aeneas, a prince of Troy and the son of Venus/Aphrodite, who leads the search for a new homeland. The Aeneid is a Roman epic purporting to explain how Trojans fleeing the fall of Troy become the ancestors of the Romans: in essence, a continuation of Homer’s Iliad.
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