Virgil: Aeneid I

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas'' destiny as founding father of Rome.

Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil''s work more accessible to today''s students, by setting it in its literary and historic...