(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)<br><br>In dramatic and narrative power, Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i> is the equal of its great Homeric predecessors, <i>The Iliad</i> and <i>The Odyssey</i>. It surpasses them, however, in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actors–a sympathy that makes events such as Aeneas's escape from Troy and search for a new homeland, the passion and the death of Dido, the defeat of Turnus, and the founding of Rome among the most memorable in literature.<br><br>This celebrated translation by Robert Fitzgerald does full justice to the speed, clarity, and stately grandeur of the Roman Empire's most magnificent literary work of art.