Eneide

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• Eneide

  Massimo poema della latinità e, con l'"Iliade" e l'"Odissea," capolavoro dell'antichità classica, l'"Eneide" è l'epopea di un popolo, ma abbraccia idealmente la storia dell'umanità, il cui centro per Virgilio è Roma. Presente, passato e futuro (Enea, ... (read full critics)

  Qlibri published on Wed, 9 Mar 2011

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• A very different book from what we usually read

  I read it with minimum understanding of ancient Roman history and culture, 30 years after last having studied something similar in school.

  The first clear result is: yes you can read epics with your standard contemporary reader's mind and it does make quite some sense - see two lessons in Ita ... (continue)

  I read it with minimum understanding of ancient Roman history and culture, 30 years after last having studied something similar in school.

  The first clear result is: yes you can read epics with your standard contemporary reader's mind and it does make quite some sense - see two lessons in Italian culture below.

  As a very unartistic fellow, I missed much of the aesthetic beauty and felt in awe of the epic propaganda effort that's how you sanction a people's superiority and roots by making up a myth and bolstering it with thousands of lines.
  With hindsight, it may be better for those who understand even a basic Latin to read it in double version, so one can capture a few of the most impressive phrases in the original.

  Two points struck me as uncannily capturing what is Italian culture to this day:
  - Aenea's apology to Dido - "yes, I am leaving you after eternal love promises, and after you fell for it as a jerk, but it's somebody else's fault - and I would marry you if I could, and I never quite promised anything anyway"
  - at the end of the athletic games, losers generously cheat to help their friends win against other winners, then each player takes parts according to self interest, finally additional prizes are given to those cheated to keep the everybody happy and the party going.

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• Libri Italiani
• Hardcover 675 Pages
• Edition: 4
• Publisher: Paravia
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1982
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Library Binding, Boxset, Softcover and Others
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