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Franklin Library leather edition of Virgil's "The Aeneid," In the Verse Translation of JOHN DRYDEN, a Limited edition, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series, published in 1975. Bound in black leather with a red insert on the spine, the book has scarlet red silk end leaves, satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE Condition. Publius Vergilius Maro, who lived from 70 BC – 19 BC, was an ancient Roman poet. The Trojans, after a seven-year voyage, set sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a terrible storm, which Aeolus raises at Juno's request. The tempest sinks one ship and scatters the rest before Neptune drives off the winds and calms the sea. Aeneas, with his own and six other ships, arrives safe at an African port. When Venus complains to Jupiter of her son Aeneas's misfortunes, Jupiter comforts her and sends Mercury to obtain a kind reception for Aeneas among the Carthinginians. DIDO, Carthage’s founder and queen, welcomes them. Aeneas relates to Dido the long and painful story of his group’s travels thus far and although she has sworn to never take another lover after her husband's death, she is smitten with handsome, sexy Aeneas, and she falls passionately in love. After Aeneas sneaks away in the night, Dido, commits suicide. In the first six books, Aeneas tells of the sack of Troy that ended the Trojan War after ten years of Greek siege. T he poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins. 464 pages. I offer Combined shipping in U.S.