The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143105138 | 0143105132
Edition: ReprintFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Pub. Date: 1/29/2008
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From the award-winning translator of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" comes a brilliant new translation of Virgils great epic With his translations of Homers classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, "The Aeneid" follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfi... MORE
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Map: The Voyages of Aeneas | p. 42 |
| Virgil: The Aeneid | |
| Safe Haven After Storm | p. 47 |
| The Final Hours of Troy | p. 74 |
| Landfalls, Ports of Call | p. 103 |
| The Tragic Queen of Carthage | p. 127 |
| Funeral Games for Anchises | p. 153 |
| The Kingdom of the Dead | p. 182 |
| Beachhead in Latium, Armies Gather | p. 2... MORE |
| The Shield of Aeneas | p. 241 |
| Enemy at the Gates | p. 266 |
| Captains Fight and Die | p. 293 |
| Camilla's Finest Hour | p. 324 |
| The Sword Decides All | p. 355 |
| Notes | |
| Translator's Postscript | p. 387 |
| Genealogy: The Royal Houses of Greece and Troy | p. 404 |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. 406 |
| Variants from the Oxford Classical Text | p. 410 |
| Notes on the Translation | p. 411 |
| Pronouncing Glossary | p. 424 |
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Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks -'19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2006.
Bernard Knox is Director Emeritus of Harvard-'s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
Bernard Knox is Director Emeritus of Harvard-'s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.
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