Aeneid

Sarah Ruden is an award-winning classics scholar, a poet, and a widely published writer on religion and culture. She is the author of Vergil: The Poet’s Life. Her many translated works include Apuleius’s Golden Ass. Susanna Braund is professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia.

“This is the first translation since Dryden’s that can be read as a great English poem in itself.”—Garry Wills, New York Review of Books“The best translation of The Aeneid, certainly the best of our time.”—Ursula K. Le GuinPraise for the First Edition:  “Fast, clean, and clear, sometimes terribly clever, and often strikingly beautiful. . . . Many human achievements deserve our praise, and this excellent translation is certainly one of them.”—Richard Garner, New Criterion  “Toning down the magniloquence, Sarah Ruden gives us an Aeneid more intimate in tone and soberer in measure than we are used to—a gift for which many will be grateful.”—J. M. Coetzee  “An intimate rendering of great emotional force and purity. . . . The immediacy, beauty, and timelessness of the original Latin masterpiece lift off these pages with gem-like originality.”—Choice