Aeneas begins his sorrowful story, adding that retelling it entails reexperiencing the pain. He takes us back to ten years into the Trojan War.

“O ever-burning and inviolate fires, witness my word! O altars and sharp steel, whose curse I fled, O fillets of the gods, which bound a victim's helpless ...

Virgil: The Aeneid, Book II: a new downloadable English translation.

AENEID BOOK 2, TRANSLATED BY H. R. FAIRCLOUGH. [1] All were hushed, and kept their rapt gaze upon him; then from his raised couch father Aeneas thus began:.

A band of Trojans, led by Aeneas, slay a group of Greeks and disguise themselves in the Greeks' armor. They kill many Greeks, but then the Trojans, not ...

By the end of Book II, Aeneas has regrouped those of his people who survived the Greek onslaught of Troy. Using a literary device that symbolizes a better ...

As Aeneas and his family flee Troy, Greek soldiers are everywhere. Arriving at the temple of Ceres outside of Troy, Aeneas notices that one person was missing.

Aeneas and his followers have been welcomed to Carthage by Dido, the city's queen. After a sumptuous banquet, Dido asks Aeneas to recount the tragic story ...

THE ARGUMENT. Aeneas relates how the city of Troy was taken, after a ten years' siege, by the treachery of Sinon, and the stratagem of a wooden horse.

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