Translated with an Introduction by David West. ...

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic

With his translations of Homer's classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written....

1909. Edited by Charles W. Eliot. Contents: Introduction; Dedication of John Dryden; Books 1-12 of the Aeneis; Postscript....

A glorious boxed set featuring Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of the three great epics of Western literature

ONE OF THE PREEMINENT translators of our time, Robert Fagles's interpretations of these epic poems give new life to three seminal works in the Western canon. The Penguin Classic Deluxe Editions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid are collected here for the first time in a specially designed gift box. Each volume contains a superb introduction by renowned classicist Bernard Knox....

For this revised edition of the Loeb Classical Library's Virgil, G. P. Goold has corrected the text in accord with recent scholarship, revised the translation to reflect current idiom, and supplied a new Introduction and explanatory notes. Fairclough's edition, long a faithful standard, has thus been thoroughly updated....

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Virgil's sweeping epic of Trojan warrior Aeneas and the founding of Rome -- a stirring tale of exile, heroism, and combat, and of a man caught between love, duty, and fate.

THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information

A chronology of the author's life and work

A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations

Detailed explanatory notes

Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work

Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential....

“I sing of arms and the man...”

So begins the ageless epic of Aeneas and his men, who are seemingly destined to wander the ancient world endlessly, the playthings of wrathful gods. Fleeing the ruins of Troy, Aeneas must fight his battles with little notion that Jupiter has ordained that the Trojan champion shall promulgate a race that will be the forebears of Rome....

The Loeb Classical Library's edition of Virgil, long a standard, has now been thoroughly updated. Retaining the excellence of H. R. Fairclough's "heroic prose" translation, but pruning away its archaisms, G. P. Goold gives us in this Revised Edition an improved reading of the great Roman poet (70-19 b.c.) that reflects current idiom. Goold has also amended the facing-page Latin text and critical notes to take account of recent scholarship. In a new Introduction to the Appendix Vergiliana, he discusses the provenance and attribution of these poems traditionally ascribed to Virgil and previously collected as his "Minor Poems."...

Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well.  Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years.  Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people....