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Book Description
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Virgil the Great
Virgil was a perfectionist. Among the few items in the highly unreliable biographical tradition that have a ring of truth are his remark that he created a poem like a she-bear, gradually licking it into shape, and the report that as he lay dying at B ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 464 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0679729526
- ISBN-13: 9780679729525
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Jun 16, 1990
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780679729525 | Paperback | $13.00 | $9.36 | bn.com |
| $13.00 | $9.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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The hoofbeat of horses
Aeneid by Virgil, translated by Frederick Ahl 480pp, Oxford, £16.99 The story of Virgil's Aeneid (composed from about 29-19BC) is straightforward. The Trojan prince Aeneas escapes the destruction of Troy by the Greeks and sets sail with his father An ... (read full critics)