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| Description | "I sing of arms and of the man"After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas – Augustus’ legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven year journey – to Carthage, falling tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae; and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as ‘the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man’.David West’s acclaimed prose translation is accompanied by his revised introduction and individual prefaces to the twelve books of The Aeneid. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. | | Release Date | 2003 | | Author | Virgil | | Format | Dimensions 12.9x20.0x2.0 cm
648 pages
book | | Publisher | Penguin UK | | Subject(s) | Fiction / Classics
Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Fiction / Literary
Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / General
Poetry / Ancient & Classical |
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