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Book Description
Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and warContinue
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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
- eBook 368 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0141901691
- ISBN-13: 9780141901695
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Pub date: Mar 27, 2003
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780141901695 | eBook | $17.80 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The hoofbeat of horses
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)