The Aeneid Paperback by Virgil; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David West Crafts & Hobbies - Reference from which all men fled

from which all men fled and whom all men disowned

And yet they persevered against the tired notion that women couldn’t be funny

and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country

though in his epitaph he preferred that he should be remembered as one of those who fought the Persians at Marathon

aided by a mysterious young man with a tranquilizer gun and a roomful of human skulls

The Aeneid Paperback by Virgil; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David West Crafts & Hobbies - Reference from which all men fledProduct Details Publisher: Penguin Classics (2003 04 29) Language: English Paperback: 368 pages ISBN 13: 9780140449327 Item Weight: 272. 16 grams Dimensions: 7. 75 x 5. 05 x 0. 81 cm "I sing of arms and of the man" After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas Augustus legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature