Poetry Books by Publius Vergilius Maro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 1976-07-08
Categories: History
A Latin text with interpretation emphasizing the comparative literature approach.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published Date: 2005
Categories: Poetry
The classic poem by the ancient Latin poet extols the virtues of work, describes the care of crops, trees, animals, and bees, and stresses the importance of moral values, in an all-new translation by the award-winning author of Of No Country I Know.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published Date: 1979-01-01
Categories: Literary Criticism
Includes parallel Latin text and English translation of Virgil's 'Eclogues.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Literary Criticism
This edition includes Sir Roger Mynors's definitive text, with his accessible commentary which gives the fullest understanding of the work available for students and scholars.
Publisher: Readhowyouwant
Published Date: 2007-01-03
Categories: Poetry
In this tribute, Virgil has described Italy as the land of perpetual spring and everlasting beauty. He praises the wholesome values of the people, their simplicity and piety as well as their excitement for life. Engrossing!
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Published Date: 2020-01-04
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The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. It's hero is Aeneas, a Trojan who travels from Troy to Italy to eventually found Rome. Some argue that The Aeneid is Virgil's answer to Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, combining two genres of the day - travel and war - into one poem. Take that, Homer!No civilization is without a bit of revisionist history: so it was that Virgil picked up the story of Aeneas, which was already floating around at the time, and forged an epic founding myth for Rome. And The Aeneid fit the bill, as it linked Rome with the legends of ancient Troy, glorified stodgy Roman values, and legitimized its emperors as descendants of the heroes and gods of the past. George Washington probably didn't chop down a cherry tree, but it's a fun legend to tell the kids.
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Published Date: 2020-01-24
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The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half treats the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.The hero Aeneas was already known to Greco-Roman legend and myth, having been a character in the Iliad; Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or nationalist epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published Date: 1999
Categories: Poetry
A modern translation of the ten inter-related pastoral poems accompany the original Latin text
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 1991-10-25
Categories: History
Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas, and the aristeia and death of Camilla. K. W. Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as "Virgil's Iliad." In his introduction and commentary, he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad. Gransden shows how, despite his adoption of the epic form, Virgil's style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism, Callimachean theory, and the poetry of the neoteroi. In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary, there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique.
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Published Date: 1978
Categories: History
A new text of Ciris, a mythological narrative poet on the legend of Scylla and Nisus.
