The two fall in love, but their happiness comes to a tragic end. On the island of Carthage, Aeneas meets Queen Dido who shelters his people. The journey to the west coast of Italy is full of adventure, love, betrayal and suffering. The Trojan Prince Aeneas, defeated and depressed, leads his remaining citizens to a new land and a new destiny foretold by the Gods. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. This is a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. The Aeneid by Virgil (Dramatisation)(BBC Radio Collection) This magnificent poem, in the modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by David Collins. Finally reaching Italy, their leader, Aeneas, is forced to fight a bitter war against the natives to establish the foundations from which Rome is destined to rise. The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno. The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature.
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