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The Aeneid

✍ Scribed by Vergil; Shadi Bartsch; Virgil

Book ID: 100451667
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781984854117

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✦ Synopsis

A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.
**"The best version of the Aeneid in modern English: concise, readable and beautiful, but also as accurate and faithful to Vergil's Latin as possible."--James J. O'Hara, George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas's dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas's heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice, the place of love and passion in human life, the...

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