Settle his gods into Latium, making this land of the Latinsįuture home to the Elders of Alba and Rome’s mighty ramparts. Him, and he suffered profoundly in war to establish a city, Seas by the powers above! Savage Juno’s anger remembered How he was battered about over land, over high deep Italy-bound, fate’s refugee, arrived at Lavinia’sĬoastlands.
“Arms and the man I sing of Troy, who first from its seashores, So, before saying anything else about the Aeneid, let us just dive right into the opening verses:
The poet, invoking the power of the Muse, defines the major topics of his story. In the genre of epic poetry, the very first words tell us what the story is going to be about and what we should expect from it. The opening lines of the Aeneid are absolutely essential to its understanding.
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