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Book Description
This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text,Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Virgil the Great
Virgil was a perfectionist. Among the few items in the highly unreliable biographical tradition that have a ring of truth are his remark that he created a poem like a she-bear, gradually licking it into shape, and the report that as he lay dying at B ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Audio Cassette 51 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0140861564
- ISBN-13: 9780140861563
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Pub date: Nov 01, 1995
- Dimensions: 1419 mm x 1161 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780140861563 | Audio Cassette | $34.95 | -- | The Book Depository |
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Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Frederick Ahl 480pp, Oxford, £16.99 The story of Virgil's Aeneid (composed from about 29-19BC) is straightforward. The Trojan prince Aeneas escapes the destruction of Troy by the Greeks and sets sail with his father An ... (read full critics)