Aineias the Tactician Ho to Survive Under Siege [Paperback]

Virgil lived through the fall of the Roman Republic and the establishment of the Empire. In his poems we see a series of attempts, increasingly ambitious in scale and conception, to combine technical brilliance and beauty with profound meditation on the nature of imperialism and the relation of the individual to the State. From short pastoral poems on love and song he progressed to the heroic myth of the founding of Rome. The Aeneid , immediately recognised as the greatest masterpiece of Latin literature, has had incalculable influence on European literature in the two thousand years since it was first published.

With the Greekless reader firmly in mind, this text provides a fresh modern translation of Aineias Tacitus' How to Survive Under Siege , a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and his work, and a full historical commentary.