Aeneid Book IX

by Virgil, Philip Hardie (Editor)

This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. It offers invaluable help to students of Virgil and will also be of interest to professional scholars of Latin literature.

Genres: Poetry, Classics

268 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 20

About the author

born 15 October 70 BC
died 21 September 19 BC

Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.

Work of Virgil greatly influenced on western literature; in most notably Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri.

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

In an epic poem whose latter books offer almost nothing of interest to me but dogmatic propaganda and less than enticing imitations of the Iliad, here is a little homoerotic epyllion that reminds one of the earlier Virgil: the tener poeta qui Buccolicas scripsit. No wonder Byron wanted to translate it and it alone.