Christ. The fricking Aeneid.

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!!!

Got it for the Eclogues. Not horrible. Verse translation would be better, of course.

Aeneid books I, II, and IV for a class on Marlowe and Nashe’s Dido

Italiam non sponte sequitur :(

What to write of the words written here before us? Better, instead, to stay silent, and let the Master speak.

Wow! Read a different translation many years ago. Forgot how good this is. Do read it! Virgil's writing is so fantastic, so beautiful. Can't wait to read the second volume of this.

As with all the Loeb series, this fulfills the important need to have the original text at hand when one is reading a translation.

However, the division of the two volumes is a bit irritating: the Aeneid is divided between the two volumes, which doesn't just double the cost, but makes turning back and forth in the Aeneid to consult an earlier or later passage rather unwieldy. It would be nice to have the Aeneid in one volume, with the Eclogues and Georgics in the other, along with the Appendix Vergiliana if that is desired. I suspect, however, that the latter volume would sell very few copies, and I can't fault Harvard Press as a business if they divided the volumes as they did for exactly that reason!

The translation itself is fine, as far as translations go and considering that it is prose, trying to give the meaning of the text without pretensions to being English literature as well, and the brief and occasional notes are minimal but helpful.

For now, a necessary pair of volumes if one wants to compare the English to the original.

There’s something beautiful about Virgil, in which he portrayed his poems with the sympathy of a poet. I really enjoyed his Eclogues and Georgics, and have come to the realization that his words are like a friend to me. I highly recommend this edition of his work.