AeneidFrederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of Virgil's epic poem in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. -;'Arms and the man I sing of Troy...'So begins one of the greatest works of literature in any language. Written by the Roman poet Virgil more than two thousand years ago, the story of Aeneas' seven-year journey from the ruins of Troy to Italy, where he becomes the founding ancestor of Rome, is a narrative on an epic scale: Aeneas and his companions contend not only with human enemies but with the whim of the gods. His destiny preordained by Jupiter, Aeneas is nevertheless assailed by dangers invoked by the goddess Juno, and bythe torments of love, loyalty, and despair. Virgil's supreme achievement is not only to reveal Rome's imperial future for his patron Augustus, but to invest it with both passion and suffering for all those caught up in the fates of others.Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Echoing the Virgilian hexameter the verse stays almost line for line with the original in a thrillingly accurate and engaging style. This is an Aeneid that the first-time reader can grasp and enjoy, and whose rendition of Virgil's subtleties of thought and language will enthrall those already familiar with the epic. An Introductionby Elaine Fantham, and Ahl's comprehensive notes and invaluable indexed glossary complement the translation. -;Download audio extracts from The Aeneid |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Translators Note | xlvi |
Select Bibliography | liii |
book one | 3 |
book two | 28 |
book three | 54 |
book four | 77 |
book five | 100 |
book seven | 158 |
book eight | 185 |
book nine | 208 |
book ten | 236 |
book eleven | 266 |
book twelve | 297 |
Ancestral Chart | 328 |
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Acestes Achilles Aeneas Aeneas’s Aeneid altars Anchises Apollo armour arms Ascanius battle blazing blood Book Caesar Camilla Carthage chariot conflict Creusa Danaäns Dardan dark death Dido Dido’s different Diomedes divine epic Etruscan Euryalus Evander Evander’s eyes face fate father fields fight fighting figure final find fire first flames flank flash flee fleet flowing force fulfilment fury goddess gods Greek hand heart heavens Helenus Hercules Homer honour horses huge hurled Iliad Italy Italy’s Iulus javelin Juno Juno’s Jupiter Jupiter’s Juturna killed king land Latin Latium man’s Messapus Mezentius Mnestheus mother Nisus Octavian Odysseus off offers omen once Pallas Phrygian Priam river Roman Rome Rome’s Romulus rumour Rutulians sacrifice sail says shield ships slaughter soul spear suffer sword Tarchon tears temple terror Teucrians there’s Tiber tradition Trojan Troy Troy’s Turnus unfulfilled Venus Virgil warrior waters weapons who’s winds words wound