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ISBN-10: 0679413359
ISBN-13: 9780679413356
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.33" W, 1.11" H

The Aeneid: Introduction by Philip Hardie

Translator: Robert Fitzgerald
Introduction by: Philip Hardie

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Overview

Virgil’s great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

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"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come." -New York Review of Books

"A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful . . . Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faintly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, to suggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil's poetry as no previous translator has done . . . This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power." -Boston Globe

"In this Aeneid Fitzgerald is at the top of his form . . . [One would] be a very insensitive reader if, once launched on Aeneas' fateful journey with Fitzgerald as guide, [one] does not follow it to the end." -The New Republic

"This is translation as interpretation, Virgil filtered through one of the finest poetic sensibilities of our time . . . Fitzgerald hides his consummate artistry, effaces his own prodigious labor, until the text speaks to us directly, without foreignness of time or place." -The Boston Review

With an Introduction by Philip Hardie

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Details

ISBN-10: 0679413359
ISBN-13: 9780679413356
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publish Date: 06/30/1992
Dimensions: 8.30" L, 5.33" W, 1.11" H
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