The Aeneid: Revised Edition (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

xlvi, 307 pp. An English prose translation of Virgil's famous epic poem, with an introduction by translator David West. "The legendary origin of the Roman nation which tells the story of the Trojan Prince Aeneas who escaped with some of his men after Troy fell and sailed to Italy under the protection of the goddess Venus. Here they settled and laid the foundations of Roman power."