A Trojan refugee, driven by fate and the gods, sails to Italy to found the race that will become Rome.
Books that mention The Aeneid (24)
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton: “Real storms can be bad for sailing ships. Like the one at the beginning of the Aeneid.””
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “a subtle aroma from his juvenile contact with the _De Senectute_ and the fourth book of the _Æneid_”
My Ántonia by Willa Cather: “Morning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunny little room, looking off at the distant river bluffs and the roll of the blond pastures between, scanning the 'Aeneid' aloud and committing long passages to memory.”
The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton: “His imagination took fire over the dry pages of Cornelius Nepos, glowed with the mild pastoral warmth of the Georgics and burst into flame at the first hexameters of the Aeneid.”
Penguin Island by Anatole France: “the poet Virgil demonstrated in his 'Aeneid'”
The Wicker-Work Woman by Anatole France: “Your Renaissance scholars always depicted the author of the _Æneid_ with the features of a sage”
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis: “it was the virumque that made me get to the name of the poet himself; 'I put three lines from Virgil in my pocket.'”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “But remember poor Palinurus in the Aeneid? He lingered around and haunted them for the longest time.”
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón: “boasted he could recite Virgil's Aeneid in Latin without an accent”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “In Latin we’re starting on Book I of Virgil’s Aeneid.”
Necessity by Jo Walton: “"They had the oldest and most complete copy of the Aeneid," describing the library of rescued classical texts.”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “This question of what should be done with what a writer leaves unfinished goes back to, and is conventionally answered by, citing works we might have lost had the dying wishes of their authors been honored. Virgil's Aeneid is mentioned.”
Augustus by John Williams: “"Vergil, when he invoked the Muse to assist him in the writing of The Aeneid, did not in any substantial way believe in her whom he invoked..." — a real work discussed in the narrative.”
Babel by R. F. Kuang: “Let us begin with what Dryden wrote about the Aeneid. I have endeavoured to make Virgil speak such English as he would himself have spoken”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “The translations of Aeneid books 2 and 4 by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in the sixteenth century were foundational”
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron: “His reverend tutors had at times a tussle, And for their AEneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez dreaded the Mythology.”
The Essays by Michel de Montaigne: “But this was enough to make me neglect the other lessons that were prescribed me; … for by this means I ran through Virgil's AEneid, and then Terence, and then Plautus, and then some Italian comedies, allured by the sweetness of the subject…”
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais: “did hit upon this verse written in the Sixth of the Aeneids--”
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “The progress of a Phrygian colony, from the Tyber to the Thames, was easily ingrafted on the fable of the Aeneid; and the royal ancestors of Arthur derived their origin from Troy, and claimed their alliance with the Caesars.”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “92. Laquearia. V. Aeneid, I. 726:”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “A company of stern readers dislike the second of the Aeneids, and Virgil's gravity, for inserting such amorous passions in an heroical subject;”
Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost: “The light I had already derived from love, enabled me to comprehend many passages in Horace and Virgil which had before appeared obscure. I wrote an amatory commentary upon the fourth book of the AEneid.”