# The Aeneid

Author: Virgil, 71 BCE-20 BCE; Dryden, John, 1631-1700 [Translator]

Genre: Classical Antiquity

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/228

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Aeneid+Virgil&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Trojans, after a seven years’ voyage, set sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a dreadful storm, which Aeolus raises at the request of Juno. The tempest sinks one, and scatters the rest. Neptune drives off the winds, and calms the sea. Aeneas, with his own ship and six more, arrives safe at an African port. Venus complains to Jupiter of her son’s misfortunes. Jupiter comforts her, and sends Mercury to procure him a kind reception among the Carthaginians. Aeneas, going out to discover the country, meets his mother in the shape of a huntress, who conveys him in a cloud to Carthage, where he sees his friends whom he thought lost, and receives a kind entertainment from the queen. Dido, by...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-aeneid-228/chapters/3/index.md)