The Aeneid
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
Takes up the tale of Aeneas near the point where Homer's Illiad had left him. Urged by the gods to fulfill hsi destiny, Aeneas leads the dispossessed survivors of Troy through countless trials and adventures, and visits they underworld before his final defeat of the indigenous Italian tribes, led by Turnus, enables him to establish a new kingdom in central Italy
