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Aeneid

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Description for Aeneid Hardcover. This revised edition gives an improved reading of the great Roman poet that reflects current idiom. Translator(s): Fairclough, H.R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 422.

“The classic of all Europe.” —T. S. Eliot

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
584
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674995864
SKU
V9780674995864
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Ref
99-50

About Virgil
Henry Rushton Fairclough (1862–1938) was Professor of Classical Literature at Stanford University. G. P. Goold was William Lampson Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1974–1999).

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