L'Enéide Coffret 2 volumes

The epic Latin masterpiece, Virgil's Aeneid, is a long poem of 11,000 verses. Just like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which heavily inspired the Aeneid, the work has been admired by generations of scholars from antiquity to today and has been a recurring source of inspiration for artists and poets. This tale of the trials of the Trojan Aeneas, the mythical ancestor of the Roman people, son of Anchises and the goddess Venus, from the fall of Troy to his settlement in Latium, was written between 29 and 19 BC (Virgil's death) and is divided into twelve songs.

This canonical text has been translated and annotated by the great historian of Rome, Paul Veyne. At eighty-three years old, this unclassifiable and world-renowned scholar did not hesitate to take on the challenge of offering a new translation of this monument of Latin culture. After the success of the translation (Les Belles Lettres/Albin Michel 2012 among the best books according to Le Point), here is, in pocket format, the complete edition of the Aeneid by Paul Veyne. Paul Veyne is an honorary professor at the Collège de France and one of France's greatest historians of ancient Rome.

His many publications on Roman sociology or Greek myths, written with a lively and joyful pen, have made him known to the general public (When Our World Became Christian, 2006; Foucault, His Thought, His Person, 2008; My Imaginary Museum, 2010).