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| The Aeneid |
| Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics |
| Author(s): Virgil |
| Translator(s): West, David |
| Illustrator(s): Bickford-Smith, Coralie |
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| List Price: $24.00 |
| Format: Hardback |
| Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group |
| Imprint: Penguin Classics |
| ISBN: 0141996331 or 9780141996332 |
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Descriptions and Reviews
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| From the award-winning translator of The Iliad ... |
 | From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic
Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods. Ultimately, he reaches the promised land of Italy where, after bloody battles and with high hopes, he founds what will become the Roman empire. An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, the Aeneid redefines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were welcomed as major publishing events, brings the Aeneid to a new generation of readers, retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original Latin as well as its powerful blend of poetry and myth. Featuring an illuminating introduction to Virgil’s world by esteemed scholar Bernard Knox, this volume lends a vibrant new voice to one of the seminal literary achievements of the ancient world. >hr<"A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow."
-The New York Times Book Review (front page review)
"Fagles's new version of Virgil's epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem's Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil's distinctive voice."
-The New Yorker
"Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid."
-J. M. Coetzee>hrVirgil, was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic. In his comparatively short life he became the supreme poet of his age, whose Aeneid gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks’, celebrating their city’s origins and the creation of their empire. Virgil is also credited with authoring two other major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues and the Georgics.
Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.
Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).>hr
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Alternative Editions
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| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Simon & Schuster, Simon & Schuster |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Classics |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Classics |
| Aeneid; by Virgil; Dover Publications, Dover Publications |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; HighBridge Company, HighBridge Company |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Classics, Penguin Classics |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet Classics, Signet Classics |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Audio, Penguin Audio |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Audio, Penguin Audio |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Signet, Signet |
| Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Aeneid; by Virgil; HarperCollins Canada, HarperTorch |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Classics |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Macmillan Collector's Library, Macmillan Collector's Library |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Focus |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Focus |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Press |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; McClelland & Stewart, New Canadian Library |
| The Aeneid; by Virgil; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage |
| Aeneid: Bk. 1; by Virgil; bloomsbury academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Aeneid: Books I-VI; by Virgil; Shearsman Books, Shearsman Books |
| The Aeneid (Classics Deluxe Edition) 12-copy floor display; by Virgil; Penguin Classics, Penguin Classics |
| The Aeneid (Collins Classics); by Virgil; HarperCollins Publishers, William Collins |
| The Aeneid of Virgil; by Virgil; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam Classics |
| The Aeneid of Virgil; by Virgil; Random House Publishing Group, Bantam Classics |
| The Aeneid of Virgil; by Virgil; University of California Press, University of California Press |
| The Aeneid of Virgil, 35th Anniversary Edition; by Virgil; University of California Press, University of California Press |
| The Aeneid (SparkNotes Literature Guide); by Virgil; SparkNotes, SparkNotes |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
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| Aeneid: Bk. 1; by Virgil; bloomsbury academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Aeneid: Books I-VI; by Virgil; Shearsman Books, Shearsman Books |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Aeneidos; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Appendix Vergiliana; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| A Commentary on Virgil Eclogues; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| A Commentary on Virgil Eclogues; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| The Destruction of Troy; by Virgil; Penguin Books, Penguin Books |
| Eclogae; by Virgil; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Classics |
| Eclogues and Georgics; by Virgil; Dover Publications, Dover Publications |
| The Eclogues of Virgil; by Virgil; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| The Eclogues of Virgil (Bilingual Edition); by Virgil; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| The Essential Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| The Essential Aeneid; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| The Georgics; by Virgil; Penguin Classics, Penguin Classics |
| Georgics; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Georgics; by Virgil; Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
| The Georgics; by Virgil; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Classics |
| Georgics; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Georgics; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| Georgics; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| The Gnat and Other Minor Poems of Virgil; by Virgil; University of California Press, University of California Press |
| La eneida; by Virgil; Edimat Libros, Edimat Libros |
| Opera; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| Vergil: Aeneid 10; by Virgil; Clarendon Press, Clarendon Press |
| Vergil: Aeneid 10; by Virgil; Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid I; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid II; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid III; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid IV; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid I-VI; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid IX; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid V; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid VI; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid VIII; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid VII-VIII; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid X; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Aeneid XII; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Eclogues & Georgics; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil: Georgics I and IV; by Virgil; Bloomsbury Academic, Bristol Classical Press |
| Virgil in English; by Virgil; Penguin Classics, Penguin Classics |
| Virgil's Georgics; by Virgil; Yale University Press, Yale University Press |
| Virgil's Georgics; by Virgil; Yale University Press, Yale University Press |
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