Bk 03: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, pt 1

The Aeneid

by VIRGIL (70 BCE - 19 BCE)

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Cartheginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)

Listen next episodes of The Aeneid:
Bk 03: Sea Wanderings and Strange Meetings, pt 2 , Bk 04: The Passion of the Queen, pt 1 , Bk 04: The Passion of the Queen, pt 2 , Bk 05: Games and a Conflagration, pt 1 , Bk 05: Games and a Conflagration, pt 2 , Bk 06: The World Below, pt 1 , Bk 06: The World Below, pt 2 , Bk 07: Juno Served by a Fury, pt 1 , Bk 07: Juno Served by a Fury, pt 2 , Bk 08: Arcadian Allies, pt 1 , Bk 08: Arcadian Allies, pt 2 , Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 1 , Bk 09: A Night Sortie, a Day Assault, pt 2 , Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 1 , Bk 10: The Death of Princes, pt 2 , Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 1 , Bk 11: Debaters and a Warrior Girl, pt 2 , Bk 12: The Fortunes of War, pt 1 , Bk 12: The Fortunes of War, pt 2