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Letter Essay #7: The Aenied

April 21, 2018 Aeneas and his family running away from Ilium/Troy. I hated the Aeneid.   I recently read it, and after reading Homer, this 442 page long classic (written in the style of poetry) by Virgil, is extremely boring.  Robert Fitzgerald’s translation was published in 1983 and is very, very bland. If books were … Continue reading Letter Essay #7: The Aenied