Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering. This is a prose translation, but David West believes that contemporary ...
"This translation with its admirable projection of the various moods throughout the poem can be recommended to both classicist and non-classicist." --The Classical World"Of all the editions of the Aeneid in English, this] volume should be of special interest to the teacher--as well as to the stud...
He burned with implacable rage and his courage rose within him. Just as a lion in the fields round Carthage, who does not move into battle till he has received a great wound in his chest from the hunters, and then revels in it, shaking o...