The Aeneid

by Virgil; Fagles, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780670038039
• ISBN10: 0670038032
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-02
• Publisher: Viking Adult

Summary

"Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and by the torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others." "Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in an accurate style."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks -'19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.
Bernard Knox is director emeritus of Harvard-'s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D. C.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-û19 B.C.) is generally regarded as ancient Rome-'s greatest poet.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(41)
Map: The Voyages of Aeneas	42	(5)
VIRGIL: The Aeneid
Safe Haven After Storm	47	(27)
The Final Hours of Troy	74	(29)
Landfalls, Ports of Call	103	(24)
The Tragic Queen of Carthage	127	(26)
Funeral Games for Anchises	153	(29)
The Kingdom of the Dead	182	(31)
Beachhead in Latium, Armies Gather	213	(28)
The Shield of Aeneas	241	(25)
Enemy at the Gates	266	(27)
Captains Fight and Die	293	(31)
Camilla's Finest Hour	324	(31)
The Sword Decides All	355	(71)
NOTES
Translator's Postscript	389	(17)
Genealogy: The Royal Houses of Greece and Troy	406	(2)
Suggestions for Further Reading	408	(4)
Variants from the Oxford Classical Text	412	(1)
Notes on the Translation	413	(13)
Pronouncing Glossary	426