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Works of Virgil: Book I

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Virgil

Virgil
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Book I

The opening eleven lines of the Aeneid are a brief introduction in the
epic tradition of Homer. Virgil announces that his story will concern the
deeds and sufferings of a man (Aeneas) who is driven from Troy by destiny and
a sense of divine duty. Aeneas' task is to found the city of Rome, but he is
being kept from fulfilling this duty by the anger of the queen of the gods,
Juno, the wife of Jupiter. Virgil appeals to the goddess of inspiration, the
muse of poetry, to tell him the reasons for Juno's anger and to aid him in his
great task of writing the poem.

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