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

Hollywood, really, and it took me a while because in "The Aeneid" — and Danny Ryan is Aeneas — Aeneas goes into a cave shipwrecked in Carthage and there are murals of the Trojan War.

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

Mr. Stonecrop walked around the study table, picked up the Aeneid, and put it down after he flipped through some pages.

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