The Burdens of Aeneas: A Son’s Memoir of Duty and Love

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By James C. Abbot, Jr. ’83

Published May 23, 2018

The Burdens of Aeneas (Mercer University Press) is a series of letters that James C. Abbot, Jr. ’83 wrote to his father after he died. They are part reflection of his own life, part conversations he wishes he could have had with his father, and part criticism of Virgil’s Aeneid.

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