What is the Aeneid about?

Question

I am not sure I ever read it. Can you give me a reminder of what Virgil was going on about?

Answer 1

The Aeneid (IPA English pronunciation: [əˈniːɪd]; in Latin Aeneis, pronounced [aɪˈne.ɪs] — the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos): is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. It is split into 12 books, books 1-6 roughly imitating the wandering theme of Homer's Odyssey, and 7-12 following the war and conflict theme of the Iliad.

The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimated the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy.

Answer 2

The Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. It is split into 12 books, books 1-6 roughly imitating the wandering theme of Homer's Odyssey, and 7-12 following the war and conflict theme of the Iliad.

U can find lot more info here at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneid

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Answer 3

What Is Aeneid About

Answer 4

The story of the ancestor of the founders of Rome, and supposedly a descendent of the godess Venus, wandering after the Trojan war.