If you want to read the Latin alongside the English, you can turn to the Loeb Classical Library, though it inconveniently stretches over two books and the English is a little dated. Author Selina O’Grady, author of And Man Created God, specified the translation by the American poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald (1983), though in this New York Times review, you can see the arguments for also reading the translation by Robert Fagles (2006), the late American academic and poet. See below why experts picked it as an important book on a variety of subjects. The Aeneid was written by the Roman poet Virgil, in the age of Augustus, as a founding myth for the emerging Roman empire. Aeneid, opening lines (Robert Fitzgerald translation) The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation) by VirgilĮxpelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore” Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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