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The Aeneid

Key Facts

Full title - The Aeneid

Author – Virgil

Type of work - Epic poem

Genre - Heroic epic; mythological story

Language – Latin

Time and place written - Around 20 B.C., probably in Rome and in the north of Italy, and perhaps in Greece

Date of first publication - Virgil died in 19 B.C., before he finished revising the Aeneid; it was published after his death.

Narrator - The poet Virgil, although Aeneas himself assumes the narration in Books II and III, when he gives a retrospective account of his adventures

Point of view - When Virgil controls the narration, the point of view includes the actions of the gods as well as the human story; Aeneas, in his storytelling, does not have this access to the gods' perspective and relates events only from his own perspective.

Tone - When treating the glory of Rome, the epic is solemn, celebratory, and honorific. When Virgil depicts the victims of history—those who suffered in the course of the founding of......


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Approximate Word Count: 17609
Approximate Pages: 71 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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