TY  - BOOK
AU  - Virgil,
AU  - Bartsch,Shadi
AU  - Virgil.
TI  - The Aeneid
SN  - 9781984854100
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Aeneas
KW  - Voyages to the otherworld
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Legends
KW  - Rome
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326); Landfall at Carthage --; Aeneas' story: the fall of Troy --; Aeneas' story: Mediterranean wanderings --; Dido's suicide --; Trojan games --; A visit to Hades --; Italy-and war --; An embassy to Evander --; Nisus and Euryalus --; Bloodshed, and Pallas down --; Truce and conflict --; The last duel
N2  - "A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of the west. For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes that shape human existence--the role of duty and self-sacrifice, the place of love and passion in human life, the relationship between art and violence, the tension between immigrant and indigenous people, and the way new foundations are so often built upon the wreckage of those who came before .." --
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