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Christ. The fricking Aeneid.
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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the "Eclogues," which imitated freely Theocritus's idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four hooks of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil's remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the "Aeneid," on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the "Aeneid." He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the executors of his will.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.
607 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,-0019
This edition
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607 pages, Hardcover
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October 1, 1999 by Harvard University Press
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9780674995833
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067499583X
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Multiple languages
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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.
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.
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read books 1, 2, 4, and 6 for AP
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В первых работах поэта читатель отмечает обилие пасторальных эпизодов. Вергилий скорее отражает ему известное, нежели стремится поэтизировать быт обитателей сельской местности. Перед взором возникают пахари, животноводы, пасечники, садоводы. Все тонкости их профессионального ремесла становятся известными читателю, вплоть до правил пересадки. разведения, борьбы с болезнями и точного указания на момент сбора. В плане понимания дальнейшего падения Древнего Рима и тёмных веков Европы, подобного рода информацию было больше негде найти, поэтому старания Вергилия стали для них благом. Иначе кто бы объяснил людям хитрости разведения овец и выращивания винограда, опираясь не на сам факт получения результата, а с оглядкой на свойства почвы и фазы Луны?
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Excellent book!!!
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Got it for the Eclogues. Not horrible. Verse translation would be better, of course.
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Aeneid books I, II, and IV for a class on Marlowe and Nashe’s Dido
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Italiam non sponte sequitur :(
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