An extensive glossary identifying the numerous historical and mythical allusions accompanies this verse translation of Virgil's spic story of the journey of Aeneas from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the ultimate founder of the great city of Rome. Reissue.
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A modern poetic translation of The Aeneid by distinguished poet and Oxford Professor C. Day Lewis. Present day readers will find all the beauty, nobility, excitement and humanity of the original in this masterful English version.
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"A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of the majesty and pathos of the original."―Bernard M. W. Knox
"Mandelbaum has . . . given us a contemporary experience of the masterpiece, at last."―David Ignatow
"The book has a wonderful, detailed liveliness in every line."―Robert Fagles
"Comes closer to the impossible goal of perfection than any of the numerous efforts that have poured out of American and British presses since World War II."―William S. Anderson
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- PublisherAnchor
- Publication date1953
- ISBN 10 0385093187
- ISBN 13 9780385093187
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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