The Aeneid
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Virgil
(4,024 Sterne; 21 Bewertungen)
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)
(13 hr 38 min)
Chapters
Bewertungen
A good epic poem
Will
(3 Sterne)
Book 1 Pt 1 is beautifully read and a joy to hear. Sadly Pt 2 is so badly recorded I could barely follow the story! Things generally improve after that though.
Great recording!
MaryH
(3 Sterne)
Only book 5 was quiet for me. I liked the rhyming. As for the actual story - sure, it was great but hard to hold my attention.
App always crashes.
jcadcell
(2 Sterne)
The app frequently crashes and the narrators sound better in the prose translation by Mackail.
difficult to understand
null
(2 Sterne)
not a great translation