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Vergil: The Aeneid
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Focus Item #: 00773
Author(s): Richard Caldwell
ISBN: 978-1-58510-077-4
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Description
Illustrated
prose translation of the epic poem with pedagogical apparatus for make reading
this important work a joy. The text is complete with an introductory essay,
glossary, and an appendix detailing the tabulation of the gods. Notes
throughout the text provide help in following the narrative framework of the
epic.
An exciting prose translation of the great Roman epic, illustrated by Merle
Mianelli Poulton. Caldwell's translation focuses on the story,
the myth and the literary context, making this translation easy for the average
student to follow understand.
Features
Notes
throughout the text provide help in following the narrative framework of the
epic.
Mythology and mythological references are noted throughout the book.
Extensive glossary of names helps the reader follow the complicated
genealogies.
A comprehensive introduction provides comparison of the poem with the Iliad and
the Odyssey as well as a general framework for the epic to help the student
follow the narrative flow of the work.
Ancillaries
About the Author
Richard Caldwell (deceased)
was Professor Emeritus at the University
of Southern California.
His PhD was from the University
of Texas and he
specialized in both the Classics and psychoanalysis. He wrote the popular
transation of Hesiod's "Theogony" and a prose translation of Vergil's
"Aeneid".
Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2004.10.07
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