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| Original Title: | Æneis |
| ISBN: | 0679729526 (ISBN13: 9780679729525) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Venus (Goddess), Jupiter (God), Aeneas, Juno, Priam, Ixion, Iris (Greek), Mercury (mythology) Marvel), Turnus (King of the Rutuli), Vulcan (God), Neoptolemus, Dido of Carthage, Misenus, Anchises, Sybil (Ancient oracle), Ascanius, Charon (mythology), Camilla (mythology), Lavinia (mythology), Pallas (son of Evander) |
| Setting: | Troy Carthage Sicily(Italy) …more Roma(Italy) …less |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Translation (1973) |
Virgil
Paperback | Pages: 442 pages Rating: 3.84 | 102573 Users | 2523 Reviews
Explanation Concering Books The Aeneid
The Aeneid is an epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. It's hero is Aeneas, a Trojan who travels from Troy to Italy to eventually found Rome. Some argue that The Aeneid is Virgil's answer to Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, combining two genres of the day - travel and war - into one poem. Take that, Homer!No civilization is without a bit of revisionist history: so it was that Virgil picked up the story of Aeneas, which was already floating around at the time, and forged an epic founding myth for Rome. And The Aeneid fit the bill, as it linked Rome with the legends of ancient Troy, glorified stodgy Roman values, and legitimized its emperors as descendants of the heroes and gods of the past. George Washington probably didn't chop down a cherry tree, but it's a fun legend to tell the kids.
Identify Containing Books The Aeneid
| Title | : | The Aeneid |
| Author | : | Virgil |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 442 pages |
| Published | : | June 16th 1990 by Vintage (first published -19) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Poetry. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Literature. Academic. School. Epic |
Rating Containing Books The Aeneid
Ratings: 3.84 From 102573 Users | 2523 ReviewsNotice Containing Books The Aeneid
Oh, Aeneid, it isn't you... it's me!I tried to like you, Aeneid, I really did. And we had some good times, didn't we? But I have to admit that I think I was still a bit hung up on Iliad, and I was trying to make you something you aren't. That isn't fair to you, and it isn't fair to me.You've got such nice language in you. Such poetry! I'm sure that someone will come along soon who can appreciate you for what you are. You deserve it. Really. You're a wonderful story; you're just not for me.IThe Aeneid by Virgil(70BC 19BC)A verse translation by Allen MandelbaumVirgil chooses the Iliad by Homer as the baseline and background for his epic poem The Aeneid.According to scholars, Virgil aimed with his work to establish the original founding of the Roman Nation.Ilium is the Latin name of Troy. The city existed in the late bronze age, about 1200BC. The Iliad is Homers story of the young Trojan Paris and his kidnap of consenting beautiful Helen; followed by the Greek revenge expedition
Æneis = Aeneid, VirgilThe Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.عنوان: انه اید
Once upon a 2050ish years ago, there was a Roman chap named Vergil who wrote poetry. And holy crappuccino, could he write poetry. Anyway, his chum Caesar Augustus says to him, "Verg, old pal, old bean! Write me some jolly old propaganda linking us Romans, inferiority complex-afflicted as we are, to the Greeks so we can get on with conquering the world and quit feeling so much like a master race of insecure teenagers, there's an absolutely spiffing chap. Oh, and feel free to completely copycat
some funny reviews as to my opinions on this1) this is filled with purple prose and instalove, complete with a hot sexy bad boy for the main character2) hello my name is Aeneas Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way. I have long ebony black hair and some people say I look like Aphrodite (AN: if u dont know who she is get da hell out of here!) I was sailing through the ever-mindful anger of the savage Juno. It was raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of gods stared at me. I put
The reason that I picked up this Latin epic book (Yes, what I read did not seem to be a poem, at least to me, but just a splendid translation) is the countless inter-textual references to this mythology book in the books I previously read. And I was not even half-satisfied to find none of them in this translation, in that sense. But, coming to this translation:"Can there be so much anger in the hearts of the heavenly gods?"The above line just summarizes the whole story of prophetic wanderings
Read as part of my A Levels.Thoroughly enjoyed the first half of The Aeneid (mainly because its the half influenced by The Odyssey and so more mythological and fantastical) less enthralled by the second half (more influenced by The Iliad - with war and politics.)Will go back for a reread at some point I imagine.
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