The Aeneid of Virgil
$23.55
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
31 December 1981
Summary
The Aeneid: An Epic of Fate and Founding
Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world–as literature as well. Virgil’s Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism–the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate–that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can expr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553210415 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553210416 |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
| Author: | Virgil |
| Publisher: | Bantam Classics |
| Imprint: | Bantam USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1981 |
| Weight: | 195g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 106mm x 177mm |
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Critics Review
“Allen Mandelbaum has produced a living Aeneid, a version that is unmistakably poetry.” – Erich Segal, The New York Times Book Review “A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of the majesty and pathos of the original.” – Bernard M. W. Knox
“Mandelbaum has… given us a contemporary experience of the masterpiece, at last.” – David Ignatow
About The Author
Virgil
Frederick Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. His books include Sophocles’ Oedipus, Seneca’s Phaedra, Lucan: An Introduction, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. He lives in Ithaca, NY.
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