Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6, New edition Edition
Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid 1-6
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- Hardcover
608 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1999
Summary
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674995833 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067499583X |
| Author: | Virgil, G.P. Goold, H. Rushton Fairclough |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | LOEB |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 108mm x 162mm |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
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Henry Rushton Fairclough (1862–1938) was Professor of Classical Literature at Stanford University. G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974–1999).
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