{"product_id":"vergils-aeneid-the-essential-books-9780190204969","title":"Vergils Aeneid The Essential Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references, while the rich visual program lightens the text and educates students in the history of Western art by presenting a single topic as represented over 2,000 years.The Aeneid''s first sentence charts the poem''s historical plot, taking us in one sweep of seven lines from Homer''s Troy to Augustus'' Rome. These two layers of time are felt all the way through the poem, from the distant past of Aeneas'' heroic and quasi-mythological time, over 1100 years before Vergil, down to the now of Augustus'' Rome, when Vergil was writing the poem between 30 and 19 BC, a period of ongoing political experimentation.  The story of Aeneas--moving from one continent to another, undergoing and enforcing great transformat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with. * Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University *\u003cbr\u003ePowell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire' * with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phraseis still relevant today.Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ; Book 1: The Shores of Africa ; Book 2: The Fall of Troy ; Book 4: The Death of Dido ; Book 6: Descent into the Underworld ; Book 7: The Seeds of War (lines 1-121; 230-389; 659-end) ; Book 8: The Shield of Aeneas (lines 1-176; 352-end) ; Book 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan Camp (lines 151-391) ; Book 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and Mezentius (lines 1-116; 408-552; 626-end) ; Book 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of Camilla (lines 416-?) ; Book 12: The Death of Turnus (lines 384-end)","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862449717591,"sku":"9780190204969","price":32.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780190204969.jpg?v=1759917836","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vergils-aeneid-the-essential-books-9780190204969","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}