Author(s): Homer; Virgil

Classics

In The Iliad, Fagles recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves to its tragic conclusion. In The Odyssey recounts the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. And in the newly translated Aenied, we follow the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people.