Driven by Juno’s anger from fallen Troy, Aeneas and his exiles are storm-tossed to Libya and welcomed by Dido, queen of Carthage, before fate pulls them on to Sicily, the underworld and the long war for a home in Italy. William Morris renders all twelve books in rolling rhymed fourteeners, each prefaced by a short argument, in deliberately archaic English.
Rome’s founding epic as heard by the poet-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, a translation unlike any other. Download the free EPUB.