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 Format: Paperback, 353 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0140444572
Release Date: Jan 6, 2000
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a translation of the Latin narrative poem whose twelve "books tell of the forced wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas (son of the goddess Venus and the mortal Anchises) after the fall of Troy; how he survived the wrathof the goddess Juno (who favored Troy's enemies, the Achaeans), and, after a series of demanding adventures, fulfilled a prophecy that he would lead his uprooted people to a new home and there found an empire--what would become the home of Augustus." (Christ Sci Monit)
| | | | From The Publisher
In Aeneas, Virgil created the most powerful figure in Latin literature, the dutiful yet fallible Trojan prince who overcomes war, suffering and countless setbacks to lay the foundations of the Roman race. Like many of his generation, John Dryden (1631-1700) believed the great classical epics could provide moral models to 'form the Mind to Heroick Virtue by Example'. For his version of the Aeneid, he formed a style vigorous yet refined and drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. This Penguin English Poets edition includes maps, a substantial glossary and enough background to help readers overcome any unfamiliarity with style or substance, thus making freshly accessible a work of enduring worth.
| | | | Annotation
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 2 Average Rating:
A Must
-- A reviewer, January 18, 2000
This review refers to the translation by C.H. Sisson.
-- An anal-retentive reader, December 14, 2000
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