About this title: Virgil's Homeric epic was not quite completed when he died suddenly in 19 B.C. However, against Virgil's expressed wishes, the emperor Augustus decreed that it be published. It traces the journey of Aeneas to Italy after the Trojan War, where (according to Homer) he was instrumental in the founding of Rome. His voyage is a sequence of reversals and triumphs: great storms, the meeting with Dido, the visit to the underworld. Virgil celebrates the people and places of the Mediterranean, as well as the emperor Augustus and the empire. Written in hexameters, "The Aeneid" is a synthesis of tales ...
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Edition: Reprint. original
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780552674102ISBN:0552674109
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Latin. xiv, 401p.; 18 cm. This translation originally published, Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1971. Bibliographyp.397-401. read more
Edition: c1951 reprint.
Binding: paperback
Publisher: New York: Scribner's
Description: 381pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [some ink underlining on a couple of pp; else a complete & tight copy] A verse translation of the great Roman epic of Publius Vergilius Maro (70BC-19BC), done by the poet and translator Rolfe Humphries (1894-1969). read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553210415ISBN:0553210416
Description: Good. 0553210416 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in good condition, varying degrees of shelf wear, some spine creases, m..._ read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780553210415ISBN:0553210416
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam, Toronto: London
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780552674102ISBN:0552674109
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Text in English, Latin. xiv, 401p.; 18 cm. This translation originally published, Berkeley; London: University of California Press, 1971. Bibliographyp.397-401. read more
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