The Harvard Classics. Volume 13. Aeneid, Virgil

Harvard Classics, Vol. XIII. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, 1909 - 427 p.
The Aeneid is widely considered Virgil's finest work and one of the most important poems in the history of western literature. Virgil worked on the Aeneid during the last ten years of his life (29-19 BC), commissioned, according to Propertius, by Augustus. The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.The Aeneid is Virgil's unfinished patriotic epic.