The Aeneid
Cover mockup.
The Aeneid
Aeneas carries his father out of burning Troy and sails west, by way of Carthage and its queen, to found the people who will become Rome.
- Availability
- Available for delivery beginning June 2027.
- Often read in
- Grades 7–12
- First published
- c. 19 BC
- This edition
- J. W. Mackail’s prose translation, in twelve books.
- Pages
- 230
- Prompts
- 12, one at the close of each book
From the book
A prompt from this edition.
Every book of the Commonplace Edition closes with a prompt.
Commonplace
Wrecked on a strange coast, Aeneas tells his men, “This too sometime we shall haply remember with delight.” Then the teller shows us his face: he “feigns hope,” keeping his anguish “hidden deep in his breast.” Copy the speech’s last sentence and the sentence after it, one under the other. Is the speech a lie, and is a leader right to make it?
The book
Made like the printed Frankenstein
This title is set on the same page and made to the same specification as the printed Frankenstein.
- Size7 × 10 inches
- Pages230
- BindingSewn in signatures, square back, cloth over 3 mm board
- CoverForest green book cloth, stamped in gold foil and blind
- PaperCream, uncoated, 120 gsm (about 81 lb text)
- EndpapersPrinted, on 180 gsm stock
- RibbonPale gold marker
- The pageSet in EB Garamond at 11 on 15 points, with a ruled column in the outer margin, a rule beside every line, and a line number every fifth line
- Prompts12, one at the close of each book
- MadeDesigned and typeset in Sagamore Hills, Ohio
Grades 7–12