The Aeneid (Unabridged)

Written by Virgil

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Fleeing the burning ruins of Troy, the Trojan hero Aeneas embarks on a perilous journey to fulfill his destiny - founding Rome. Guided by the gods, he faces storms, monsters, and the wrath of the goddess Juno, who desires Carthage to rule the world.

In Italy, Aeneas finds a new home, but not without conflict. A war erupts between the Trojans and the Latins, fueled by love, prophecy, and clashing ambitions. Aeneas, a reluctant warrior, emerges victorious, uniting Trojans and Latins through marriage. His journey, a blend of epic adventure and political allegory, establishes the lineage that leads to the rise of the Roman Empire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Falcon Press
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798868650758

Virgil

Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) was a Roman poet. He was born near Mantua in northern Italy. Educated in rhetoric, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy, Virgil moved to Rome where he was known as a particularly shy member of Catullus’ literary circle. Suffering from poor health for most of his life, Virgil began his career as a poet while studying Epicureanism in Naples. Around 38 BC, he published the Eclogues, a series of pastoral poems in the style of Hellenistic poet Theocritus. In 29 BC, Virgil published his next work, the Georgics, a long didactic poem on farming in the tradition of Hesiod’s Works and Days. In the last decade of his life, Virgil worked on his masterpiece the Aeneid, an epic poem commissioned by Emperor Augustus. Expanding upon the story of the Trojan War as explored in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the hero Aeneas from the destruction of Troy to the discovery of the region that would later become Rome. Posthumously considered Rome’s national poet, Virgil’s reputation has grown through the centuries—in large part for his formative influence on Dante’s Divine Comedy—to secure his position as a foundational figure for all of Western literature.