"Sweet prose, clear and clean and dancing like a mountain stream, as here � West opens the window and the
winds bring life into Virgil"s body"
--Wall Street Journal
"The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original"
--Times
Publisher Web Site, August, 2003
Summary
In Aeneas, Virgil created the most powerful figure in Latin literature, the dutiful yet fallible Trojan prince
who overcomes war, suffering and countless setbacks to lay the foundations of the Roman race.
