Recipient of an Academy Award in Literature, Robert Fagles is a highly celebrated poet and translator of ancient texts. He makes Virgil's wondrous epic feel utterly relevant and modern with this stunning treatment. It is the tale of aeneas, who flees the smoldering ashes of Troy to found a new civilization-Rome. "...a new, fast-moving, readable rendition of the national epic of ancient Rome." –Publishers Weekly, starred review