The Aeneid
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
28 December 2000
Summary
The Aeneid: Founding a Nation
“The Aeneid” by Virgil (70-19 B.C.) recounts the legendary founding of Rome. It narrates the journey of Aeneas, a Trojan prince who flees the fallen city of Troy and sails to Italy with his followers. They settle and establish the foundation of Roman power.
The Aeneid offers a poetic vision of a world shaped by human and divine forces. It is a literary epic born from Virgil’s deep love for Italy and his belief in Rome’s destiny to civilize and g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140440515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140440518 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Virgil |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 December 2000 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
“Fitzgerald’s is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come.”–New York Review of Books “From the beginning to the end of this English poem…the reader will find the same sure control of English rhythms, the same deft phrasing, and an energy which urges the eye onward.”–The New Republic
“A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful…. Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faintly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, to suggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil’s poetry as no previous translator has done (including Dryden)…. This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power.”–Boston Globe
About The Author
Virgil
Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.
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