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Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world-and of literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism-the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate-that has influenced writers for more than two thousand years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express, the Aeneid is a book for all time and all people.Virgil is the author of 'Aeneid of Virgil', published 1981 under ISBN 9780553210415 and ISBN 0553210416.
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