Aeneid of Virgil

Name: Aeneid of Virgil
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ISBN: 9780472065950

ISBN-10: 0472065955

ISBN-13: 9780472065950

Edition: 1995

Authors: Edward McCrorie, Edward McCrorie, Vincent J. Cleary

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Called "the best poem by the best poet," Virgil's Aeneid is perhaps the most famous work in Latin literature. It tells the story of Rome's founding by the Trojan prince Aeneas after many years of travel, and it contains many of the most famous stories about the Trojan War. It also reveals much of what the Romans felt and believed about themselves- the sensitive reader will see that these same values and issues often trouble us today. In this new translation Edward McCrorie has performed the difficult task of rendering Virgil's compact, dense Latin into fine, readable, modern English verse. The sometimes complex text is made clear and comprehensible even for first-time readers, and a…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/2/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Edward McCrorie is a poet and translator whose works include several collections of poems and an acclaimed translation of Virgil's Aeneid. He is also a professor of English at Providence College. Richard P. Martin is the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics at Stanford University and the author of several books, including The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad and Myths of the Ancient Greeks.