The Aeneid of Virgil

virgil allen mandelbaum

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."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

Genres poetryfictionmythologyclassicsliteratureschoolfantasyepicancientclassic literature

413 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,-0019

Places

italy, troy, carthage, sicily, rome,

This edition

Format: 413 pages, Paperback
Published: October 26, 1982 by University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045507
ASIN: 0520045505
Language: English

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Venus (goddess)

Venus is the Roman goddess whose functions encompassed love, beauty, sex, fertility and prosperity. In Roman mythology, she was the mother of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. Julius Caesar claimed ...
Jupiter (god)

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Aeneas

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Juno (goddess)

Juno (Latin: Iūno) is an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counselor of the state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister (but also the wife) of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Mars and Vulcan. Juno also looked after the women of Ro...
Priam

Priam (Greek Πρίαμος Príamos) was the son of Laomedon and was the king of Troy. He became king after Laomedon and all of Priams brothers were killed by Heracles in the first sack of Troy. Priam himself was the father, by his wife Hecuba and other wo...
Ixion

In Greek mythology, Ixion (Greek: Ἰξίων) was the son the Phlegyas, descendent of Ares, and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly. He is chiefly known as the first human to shed kindred blood. Ixion invited his father-in-law, Deioneus, to come and collect the pr...

About the author

virgil

born 15 October 70 BC
died 21 September 19 BC

Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid, an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.

Work of Virgil greatly influenced on western literature; in most notably Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.