Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil's ancient hexameter, a swift-moving six-beat line varying between twelve and seventeen syllables, to reproduce the
Aeneid (Oxford World’s Classics)
✍ Scribed by Ahl, Frederick; Elaine Fantham
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 481 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0199231958
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