The Aeneid
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and into the heart of a new world — The Aeneid, Virgil's monumental epic, chronicles the heroic and harrowing journey of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior destined to found the city that will one day become Rome. Battling divine wrath, treacherous seas, the anguish of lost love, and the brutality of war, Aeneas must sacrifice everything personal and private in service of a grand, inexorable destiny. Robert Fitzgerald's celebrated translation renders Virgil's Latin hexameters into vibrant, muscular English verse that pulses with both grandeur and intimacy. Written between 29 and 19 BC, The Aeneid stands as one of the supreme achievements of Western literature, a work that simultaneously glorifies the founding myth of Rome and meditates with devastating honesty on the human cost of empire. Virgil weaves together divine intervention, political prophecy, and deeply personal tragedy to produce an epic whose moral complexity has resonated across two millennia. Fitzgerald's translation, widely regarded as the finest in the English language, captures the poet's dual voice — both triumphant and sorrowful — leaving the reader to wonder whether Aeneas's great victory is truly a prize worth its staggering price.
Author: Virgil
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Random House
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
At the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and into the heart of a new world — The Aeneid, Virgil's monumental epic, chronicles the heroic and harrowing journey of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior destined to found the city that will one day become Rome. Battling divine wrath, treacherous seas, the anguish of lost love, and the brutality of war, Aeneas must sacrifice everything personal and private in service of a grand, inexorable destiny. Robert Fitzgerald's celebrated translation renders Virgil's Latin hexameters into vibrant, muscular English verse that pulses with both grandeur and intimacy. Written between 29 and 19 BC, The Aeneid stands as one of the supreme achievements of Western literature, a work that simultaneously glorifies the founding myth of Rome and meditates with devastating honesty on the human cost of empire. Virgil weaves together divine intervention, political prophecy, and deeply personal tragedy to produce an epic whose moral complexity has resonated across two millennia. Fitzgerald's translation, widely regarded as the finest in the English language, captures the poet's dual voice — both triumphant and sorrowful — leaving the reader to wonder whether Aeneas's great victory is truly a prize worth its staggering price.