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  Title

  The Aeneid

  Author

  Virgil.  

  Publisher:

  Penguin Books,

  Pub date:

  2008.

  Pages:

  484 p. :

  ISBN:

  0143105132

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

  • Holdings

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    PA6807 .A5 F25 2008	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0143105132 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780143105138

  Personal Author:

  Virgil.

  Uniform title:

  [Aeneis. English]

  Title:

  The Aeneid / Virgil ; translated by Robert Fagles ; introduction by Bernard Knox.

  Publication info:

  New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

  Physical description:

  484 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Penguin classics deluxe edition)

  General Note:

  Originally published: Viking, 2006.

  Contents:

  Introduction -- Map: the voyages of Aeneas -- Virgil: the Aeneid -- Safe haven after a storm -- The Final hours of Troy -- Landfalls, ports of call -- The Tragic queen of Carthage -- Funeral games for Anchises -- The Kingdom of the dead -- Beachhead in Latium, armies gather -- The Shield of Aeneas -- Enemy at the gates -- Captains fight and die -- Camilla's finest hour -- The Sword decides all -- Notes -- Translator's postscript -- Genealogy; the royal houses of Greece and Troy -- Suggestions for further reading -- Variants from the Oxford classical text -- Notes on the translation -- Pronouncing glossary.

  Summary:

  A new edition of Virgil's epic work is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity, as well as its influential blend of poetry and verse.

  Held by:

  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Epic poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

  Subject term:

  Aeneas (Legendary character)--Poetry.

  Subject term:

  Legends--Rome.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Fagles, Robert.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Knox, Bernard, 1914-2010.

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