1 The Greek epics have always been comparatively free of historical setting by the time they emerged in the eighth to seventh centuries BCE the Mycenaean world they purported to depict had long been gone. The Homeric poems report from a misty prehistoric past: we don’t know who Homer was or even if he existed, the historical actuality of the Trojan War is a perennial subject of dispute, and the ancients could not say for sure to what island home his celebrated homecoming brought Odysseus, even if we think we can. But the Aeneid is very different from the other two. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid are the holy trinity of classical European epic, and Robert Fagles and Stanley Lombardo, with their recent versions of the Aeneid, have translated all three.
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