The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem 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.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Arms and the man I sing, who first from the coasts of Troy, exiled by fate, came to Italyand Lavine shores; much buffeted on sea and land by violence from above, throughcruel Juno's unforgiving wrath, and much enduring in war also, till he ...