The Aeneid
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Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession ...
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Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering. ''The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original'' The TimesAfter a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote the Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising his legendary ancestor Aeneas. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, the Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey: to Carthage, where he falls tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld,; and finally to Italy, where he founds 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''.Translated with an Introduction by DAVID WEST
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780140449327
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
368
Udgivelsesdato
27-03-2003
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1545902
EAN nr.
9780140449327
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
23
Bredde (mm)
139
Længde (mm)
196
Vægt (g)
272
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