Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)

Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)
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Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)
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Author: Virgil
Editor: G. P. Goold
Translator: H. Rushton Fairclough
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-02
ISBN: 0674995864
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library

Book Reviews of Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)

Book Review: Epic poetry at its best
Summary: 5 Stars

The sadly ignored second half of the Aeneid does not deserve its consignment to the dust-bin. I have always enjoyed the Loeb format (Latin on the left, English on the right) which allows one to read the Latin with or without the crutch, as one chooses. The Harvard University Press has done a lovely job as usual with Aeneas's Italian adventures. Textual notes are helpful, alternate readings and manuscript discrepancies being listed at the bottom of the page; the index of proper names is useful and exhaustive; and the Appendix Vergiliana is a delightful glimpse into the little-known world of mediocre Latin poetry. Everyone should have the pleasure -- nay, the privilege -- of reading the Aeneid in Latin once in his or her life, and the Loeb edition is an excellent text by which to do it.

Summary of Virgil, Volume II : Aeneid Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library, No 64)

Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he vent back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which imitated freely Theocritus's idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four hooks of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil's remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the executors of his will.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.

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