The Aeneid of Virgil: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Aeneid of Virgil, credited to Virgil, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil. (Translated by John Dryden.) Read in English by George Allen The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Virgil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Carthaginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. (Summary by Wikipedia and Karen Merline)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Aeneid of Virgil
• Author credits: Virgil
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 13:05:34

Catalogue topics

• Virgil
• epic poetry
• Aeneid
• classics
• dryden

Track guide

1. 01 - Book I, Part 1 — 30:21
2. 02 - Book I, Part 2 — 30:07
3. 03 - Book II, Part 1 — 30:28
4. 04 - Book II, Part 2 — 29:21
5. 05 - Book III, Part 1 — 27:22
6. 06 - Book III, Part 2 — 28:04
7. 07 - Book IV, Part 1 — 31:21
8. 08 - Book IV, Part 2 — 28:36
9. 09 - Book V, Part 1 — 32:14
10. 10 - Book V, Part 2 — 32:28
11. 11 - Book VI, Part 1 — 36:20
12. 12 - Book VI, Part 2 — 38:11
13. 13 - Book VII, Part 1 — 32:04
14. 14 - Book VII, Part 2 — 33:43
15. 15 - Book VIII, Part 1 — 26:34
16. 16 - Book VIII, Part 2 — 29:53
17. 17 - Book IX, Part 1 — 33:24
18. 18 - Book IX, Part 2 — 29:13
19. 19 - Book X, Part 1 — 36:46
20. 20 - Book X, Part 2 — 37:23
21. 21 - Book XI, Part 1 — 35:51
22. 22 - Book XI, Part 2 — 37:14
23. 23 - Book XII, Part 1 — 40:51
24. 24 - Book XII, Part 2 — 37:48

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