โ Scribed by Virgil; David Ferry
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"I sing of arms and the man . . . "
So begins the Aeneid , greatest of Western epic poems. Virgil's story of the journey of Aeneas has been a part of our cultural heritage for so many centuries that it's all too easy to lose sight of the poem itself--of its brilliantly cinematic depiction of the sack of Troy; the monstrous hunger of the harpies; the intensity of Dido's love for the hero, and the blackness of her despair; and the violence that Aeneas and his men must endure before they can settle in Italy and build the civilization whose roots we still claim as our own.
This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established...
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Introduction -- The Aeneid and the Homeric poems -- The life of Vergil -- Names in the Aeneid -- Translator's note -- The aeneid. Books 1-12 -- Appendix A: Gods, people, and places -- Appendix B: Further readings -- Glossary.