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Sep 01, 1981 | ISBN 9780553210415 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jul 29, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897784 Buy
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Sep 01, 1981 | ISBN 9780553210415
Jul 29, 2003 | ISBN 9780553897784
Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world–as literature as well. Virgil’s Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism–the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate–that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people.
Virgil (70–19 BCE) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 BCE, unfinished). Virgil was born on October 15, 70 BCE, in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. He attended school at Cremona… More about Virgil
"Allen Mandelbaum has produced a living Aeneid, a version that is unmistakably poetry." — Erich Segal, The New York Times Book Review"A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of the majesty and pathos of the original." — Bernard M. W. Knox"Mandelbaum has… given us a contemporary experience of the masterpiece, at last." — David Ignatow
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