The Aeneid

Virgil

Penguin, 2006 - Poetry - 486 pages

Robert Fagles's translations of both the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and become the standard translations of our era. Now, his stunning modern verse translation of Virgil's "Aeneid" is poised to do the same. This beautifully produced edition of the "Aeneid" will be eagerly sought by readers desiring to complete their Fagles collection--and the attention it receives will stimulate even greater interest in his translations of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." BACKCOVER: Praise for Robert Fagles's translation of the "Odyssey: "
"Wonderfully readable . . . just the right blend of sophistication and roughness, it seems to me."
--Ted Hughes
"A memorable achievement . . . Mr. Fagles has been remarkably successful in finding a style that is of our time and yet timeless."
--Richard Jenkyns, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Remarkably seductive . . . In Fagles's hands, this 'perennial poem of adventure' is again a work of entertainment, of majesty and epic beauty great enough to stun the senses."
--"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

@TranslatioStud Got a gift of a huge wooden horse today, here in Troy. Just appeared outside the city gate. BTW: War going poorly.
Surprise. Soldiers inside the horse. We didn't start the fire! Hector's Ghost says to GTFO - take Dad and the kid with me.
I'm on a boat. Three generations of Aenean men on a sea-journey of epic proportions. Hmm. Sounds familiar...
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Contents

• Introduction: 1
• The Voyages of Aeneas: 43
• The Final Hours of Troy: 74
• Landfalls Ports of Call: 103
• The Tragic Queen of Carthage: 127
• Funeral Games for Anchises: 153
• The Kingdom of the Dead: 182
• Beachhead in Latium Armies Gather: 213
• The Shield of Aeneas: 241
• Enemy at the Gates: 266
• Captains Fight and Die: 293
• Camillas Finest Hour: 324
• The Sword Decides All: 355
• Translators Postscript: 389
• The Royal Houses of Greece and Troy: 407
• Pronouncing Glossary: 426

About the author

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known as Virgil, was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic. In his comparatively short life he became the supreme poet of his age, whose Aeneid gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks’, celebrating their city’s origins and the creation of their empire. Virgil is also credited  with authoring two other major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues and the Georgics.

Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Aeneid; Penguin classics deluxe edition
• Author: Virgil
• Translated by: Robert Fagles
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin, 2006
• ISBN: 0670038032, 9780670038039
• Length: 486 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / Ancient & Classical