Availability:In StockContributor:Virgil, David West (Translator), David West (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-04-29Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449327ISBN-10:140449329UPC:9780140449327Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAW1B86BW
The Aeneid
"I sing of arms and of the man" After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas - Augustus' legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven year journey - to Carthage, falling...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780140449327ISBN-10:140449329UPC:9780140449327Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.70 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAW1B86BW
Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years. David West (1926-2013) was a leading...
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Revised Edition
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Virgil, David West (Translator), David West (Introduction by)
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