Explore Virgil’s great epic poem, The Aeneid: the dramatic story of Aeneas, who traveled to Italy and became an ancestor of the Romans. It was composed between 29 and 19 BCE.
The Harvard Classics
Journey through “Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf.” This massive collection, designed to provide the elements of a liberal education, was compiled by distinguished Harvard University president Charles Eliot in the early 1900s. Packed with the essential works of the Western classical tradition, the Harvard Classics collection remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthologies of all time—a must-have library for students and lovers of the classics.
