I gave it three stars because the translation was beautiful, as expected, however, because I read this direct after the Iliad, it fell completely flat. The characters are completely flat and boring and their are no surprises anywhere in the epic. It's basically just propaganda for the Romans.

Actually reding Allen Mandelbaum's translation. Big fan so far.

Great edition of Vergil for a high school Latin student. Abundant vocabulary help and good grammatical notes. The Aeneid itself is a masterwork of course and worth a full read in its entirety. I would not bother with it in translation though.

we get it you’re italian

This was the first full books I ever translated myself and read entirely in another language. It really expanded my idea of poetry because it is an epic poem, as well as an extremely old text, and an amazing plot. One of my favorite things that I learned from reading this poem so indepth was how to arrange words. Latin sentences have very few order requirements so authors are able to amazing things with sentence structure, and Virgil is a master. One of my favorite scenes is when he describes a storm that Aeneid is trapped in and the adjectives describing it actually swirl through the poem and encircle all the nouns and adjectives describing Aeneid and his ship. Ever since, I've been a lot more aware of my sentence structure.

Thanks T!

I read this in school. It was a nice text for the time, rich in aids.

This is a great book for the Latin student. It has all the vocabulary under the text, and a handy grammar appendix in the back

yes, in latin.
yes, i am that hardcore.