Virgil: Eclogues-Georgics-Aeneid Books I-VI

by Virgil

Book by Virgil, Fairclough,, Fairclough, H. Rushton

Genres: Philosophy, Classics

609 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1916

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

[J. Boo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the Aeneid in high school, and occasionally a passage here or there when I got on a language kick. Beautiful poetry, with nifty grammatical effects completely impossible to achieve in English.* This, unfortunately, makes it brutal on a reader with at best shaky skills in the language. Went a lot better if I read the English translation first and then worked backward, though I'm not sure if that was the ideal way to improve my Latin abilities.

* Dido and Aeneas head off into the mountains, and there's a bad storm, so they take shelter in the same cave:

Speluncam Dido dux et Troianus eandem

Inside cave Dido Leader and Trojan the same

ie Dido and Aeneas are literally inside the same cave. MIND BLOWN.