{"product_id":"2026200016865-secondhand-the-aeneid","title":"The Aeneid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the greatest epics ever written, Virgil's The Aeneid chronicles the legendary journey of Aeneas, a Trojan hero and son of the goddess Venus, as he sails across the Mediterranean world in the aftermath of the fall of Troy. Driven by destiny and the will of the gods, Aeneas endures shipwrecks, heartbreak, and the fury of Juno, ultimately arriving on the shores of Italy to fulfil his fate as the founding father of Rome. W.F. Jackson Knight's acclaimed prose translation renders Virgil's soaring Latin verse into vivid, accessible English, preserving the epic's emotional power and mythological grandeur.\n\nWritten between 29 and 19 BC, The Aeneid stands as a cornerstone of Western literature, weaving together themes of duty, sacrifice, love, and empire with a gravity that has resonated across two millennia. Virgil constructs a narrative that is at once a deeply personal meditation on loss — most memorably in the doomed romance between Aeneas and Queen Dido of Carthage — and a sweeping political vision of Rome's divine mandate. Whether one comes to it as a student of antiquity or a lover of epic storytelling, this Penguin Classics edition invites the reader into a world where mortal will and divine decree collide in ways that feel startlingly and timelessly human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269343158491,"sku":"2026200016865-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1e899795-6ca5-444f-b1c0-38dc99899b30.png?v=1788998792","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016865-secondhand-the-aeneid","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}