Reviews

The Aeneid by Virgil

callieju's review against another edition

4.0

justice for dido

mintxcore's review against another edition

5.0

turnus is a wimp! there was far more skull crushing and spilling brains than i remembered....

dprice805's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.0

graham_butterfield's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

ellyphant's review against another edition

1.0

terrible

iladevlin28's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking, Abandonment, Death, Suicide attempt, Murder, Mental illness, Gore, Genocide, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death of parent, Blood, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

“it’s a lot better than I expected” — my boyfriend

jloka's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

2.5

hermen's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

4.0

berrycreampuffs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Read this for my Greek and Roman Lit class. It was okay, I find Virgil’s writing to be profound and superior to the Iliad but only because he had the advantage of editing. The story itself was not thoroughly developed due to Virgil’s death and that is a disappointment. I enjoyed book 6 the most, where Aeneas travels to the underworld, which made me think back to the time I read Dante’s Inferno (I could see  why Dante was a Virgil fanboy). It was also interesting to see parallels from the Iliad. Other than that, it was lacking and a bit of a droll most times— not to mention the constant blatant Augustus Caesar praise, though I don’t blame Virgil, but was the mention of the Roman Emperor every 2 seconds really necessary?

lebelinconnu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0