Key Facts
Full title - The Aeneid
Author Virgil
Type of work - Epic poem
Genre - Heroic epic; mythological story
Language Latin
Time and place written - Around 20 B.C., probably in Rome and in the north of Italy, and perhaps in Greece
Date of first publication - Virgil died in 19 B.C., before he finished revising the Aeneid; it was published after his death.
Narrator - The poet Virgil, although Aeneas himself assumes the narration in Books II and III, when he gives a retrospective account of his adventures
Point of view - When Virgil controls the narration, the point of view includes the actions of the gods as well as the human story; Aeneas, in his storytelling, does not have this access to the gods' perspective and relates events only from his own perspective.
Tone - When treating the glory of Rome, the epic is solemn, celebratory, and honorific. When Virgil depicts the victims of historythose who suffered in the course of the founding of......
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