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Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
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Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1997

by Virgil

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  • Title Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Virgil
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, New York
  • Date 1997-10-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # T-07-3726
  • ISBN 9780140446272 / 0140446273
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.97 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 2.46 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Epic poetry, Latin - Translations into, Aeneas (Legendary character) - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97224902
  • Dewey Decimal Code 873.01

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Summary

Virgil's epic vividly recounts Aeneas's tortuous journey after the Trojan War and the struggles he faced as he lay the foundations for the greatest continental empire. Rendered into a vigorous and refined English by the most important man of letters of the seventeenth century, this translation of the Aeneid "set a new, august standard so influential as to be epochal." For his version, John Dryden drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

 

From the publisher

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.

About the author

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.

John Dryden (1631-1700) gained fame at the cost first of gossip and scandal and then of suspicion and scorn. He wrote to order, currying favor with the Crown and repeatedly savaging its enemies. Yet the finest works of his political and spiritual imagination--"Absalom and Achitophel" and "The Hind and the Panther"--develop the themes of envy, ambition, and misdeed in ways that far transcend their era. During the Glorious Revolution, Dryden fell from patronage and favor: he then transformed himself into perhaps the greatest of English translators, a superb interpreter of Virgil and Horace, Juvenal and Persius, Boccaccio and Chaucer.

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