The Aeneid (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Illustrated Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0143105138
ISBN-10: 0143105132
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"A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow."
-The New York Times Book Review (front page review)

"Fagles's new version of Virgil's epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem's Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil's distinctive voice."
-The New Yorker

"Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil's drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid."
-J. M. Coetzee

About the Author

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known as Virgil, was born near Mantua in the last days of the Roman Republic. In his comparatively short life he became the supreme poet of his age, whose Aeneid gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks’, celebrating their city’s origins and the creation of their empire. Virgil is also credited  with authoring two other major works of Latin literature, the Eclogues and the Georgics. 

Robert Fagles (1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His translations include Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays, Aeschylus’s Oresteia (nominated for a National Book Award), Homer’s Iliad (winner of the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by The Academy of American Poets), Homer’s Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid.

Bernard Knox (1914-2010) was Director Emeritus of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at Yale University for many years. Among his numerous honors are awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His works include The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy, Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time and Essays Ancient and Modern (awarded the 1989 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award).


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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Illustrated edition (January 29, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 484 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143105132
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143105138
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ NP0L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.29 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.59 x 1.25 x 8.34 inches
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1.0 out of 5 stars The Aeneid is Wonderful but Beware the different versions when purchasing online
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2018
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1.0 out of 5 stars The Aeneid is Wonderful but Beware the different versions when purchasing online
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2018
Be VERY careful when purchasing The Aeneid on Kindle or Audible. There are different versions, translated by different people and Amazon does not seem to differentiate well between them. I was looking for Robert Fagles’ translation and when I purchased the Kindle version, it was not the Fagles version that I received. Indeed the version I received was only Books 1 to 7 - just half of the Aeneid! I would certainly not recommend the version I purchased (images attached) because it is not the full book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic to be read today.
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