Aeneid

American  

[ih-nee-id] / ɪˈni ɪd /

noun

1. a Latin epic poem by Vergil, recounting the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Troy.

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Aeneid British  

/ ɪˈniːɪd /

noun

1. an epic poem in Latin by Virgil relating the experiences of Aeneas after the fall of Troy, written chiefly to provide an illustrious historical background for Rome

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Aeneid Cultural  

1. An epic in Latin by Virgil. The Aeneid begins with the adventures of Aeneas and his men after the Trojan War (see also Trojan War) and ends when Aeneas gains control of the Italian peninsula, which will eventually become the base of the Roman Empire.

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Example Sentences

At the last half of "The Aeneid," Aeneas has to build an empire.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2024

Crawford quotes from Virgil’s Aeneid, in which Rome is designated by the god Jupiter himself as “an empire without limit” in either “space or time.”

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2023

Moments include walking into the illustrated poem of the Aeneid, as a nun talks to Andreas about its male-centric themes, or learning the story of Wicked Guerin while in a book’s illustration.

From Washington Times • Nov. 26, 2022

He was an accomplished artist and used to read Virgil's Trojan War saga, The Aeneid in the original Latin outside his tent.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2019

Turner had cleared away the round study table in the library and left only his father’s Bible, the Aeneid, and The Origin of Species on it, along with the lamp.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt