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Works

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HW1ZON

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Eclogues and Georgics

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pastoral poetry, Latin
ISBN : UCSC:32106001548905

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A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil, 1469-1850

Author : Craig Kallendorf
Publisher : Oak Knoll Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Latin poetry
ISBN : 1584563109

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A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil, 1469-1850 by Craig Kallendorf Pdf

"A short-title catalogue of all printed editions of Virgil, from 1469 through 1850, containing almost five thousand entries. Each includes the printer, place of publication, names of any translators, editors, and commentators, and an indication of where a copy of the book may be found"--Provided by publisher.

The Collected Works of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547733928

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The Collected Works of Virgil by Virgil Pdf

Virgil was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. "Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. "The Eclogues" – Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on the Roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made Virgil a celebrity, legendary in his own lifetime. "The Georgics" – The subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. The Georgics is considered Virgil's second major work, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. The Georgics consists of 2,188 hexametric verses divided into four books. The yearly timings by the rising and setting of particular stars were valid for the precession epoch of Virgil's time, and so are not always valid now.

Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Epic poetry, Latin
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6KCK

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The Works of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018835769

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The Works of Virgil

Author : Publius Maro Vergilius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1782
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092928609

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The Works of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1791
Category : Authors, Latin
ISBN : HARVARD:HN7AKC

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Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486113975

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Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

Author : Charles Martindale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521498856

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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil by Charles Martindale Pdf

Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

The Works of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character)
ISBN : PRNC:32101047677271

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The Works of Virgil

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020396970

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The Works of Virgil by Virgil Pdf

Considered one of the greatest works of world literature, The Aeneid is an epic poem that tells the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who sets out on a journey to find a new home in Italy. Written by the ancient Roman poet Virgil, this classic work has influenced literature and culture for centuries. This edition features the original Latin text alongside an English translation, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Works of Virgil

Author : Vergilius Maro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00173258

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Aeneid, Books VII-XII

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848617631

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Aeneid, Books VII-XII by Virgil Pdf

The first six books of David Hadbawnik's astonishing modern translation of the Aeneid appeared from Shearsman Books in 2015. He now brings the whole project to a spectacular conclusion in a volume accompanied by Omar Al-Nakib's dramatic abstract illustrations. "Few narrative poems have possessed the Western imagination like Virgil's twelve-book epic written during Augustus's triumphant consolidation of the Roman Empire. [...] This new volume goes a long way toward moving the narrative into the hands of contemporary readers, drawing out a playful understanding of the ancient story while exhibiting modern preferences for poetic interaction and inquiry into the history and terms of poetic form and translation. Hadbawnik shows the fun to be had in language's etymological resonance, and he delights in scenes of dramatic fulfillment and failure. His translation distills the essence of the narrative by directing a reader's perception of the tale. [...] The turbulent energy Hadbawnik frames in the Aeneid is reinforced by Omar Al-Nakib's illustrations. The images are extraordinarily active, shimmering. Figurative abstractions in black and red ink commit visual renderings that merge a new language with the text. A kind of haptic interplay takes place in textures of visual and auditory modes that interact in the experience of reading. The interplay between the text and images vividly enhance the poem's movements. Readers enter it anew as a work of contemporary art and not as a furzy excavation or dour education in classical writing. It is instead a vivid opportunity to confront our own pleasure for words and images violently imagined in the ancient corpus." -from Dale Martin Smith's Introduction, 'The Warrior Agōn'.