The Aeneid
Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell
17 September 2015
ISBN: 9780190204952
432 pages
Paperback
235x156mm
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Price: £14.99Description
- Art program and on-page notes make this book unique and stand out from the competition
- Introduction by Powell sets the poem in its philological, mythological, and historical context
- Only translation to provide on-page notes that explain obscure literary and historical references
- Embedded illustrations (2-3 per chapter) provide visual sources from both antiquity and other periods for key passages in each of the epics 12 books. Each illustration is accompanied by an extensive caption
- Art program that lightens the text and educates the students in the history of western art by presenting a single topic as represented over 2,000 years
- Five maps-the most of any available translation-provide geographic context for the poem's many place names
- Includes a timeline of Roman history and a genealogical chart
About the Author(s)
Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Barry B. Powell, Halls-Bascomb Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for thirty-four years. His translations of the Iliad (2013) and the Odyssey )2014) were also published by Oxford University Press.
Table of Contents
- , List of Maps and Figures
, Foreword
, Acknowledgments
, About the Translator
, Maps
, Timeline of Roman History Through Augustus
, Genealogical Chart
Introduction
Book 1: The Shores of Africa
Book 2: The Fall of Troy
Book 3: Journey from Troy
Book 4: The Death of Dido
Book 5: Funeral Games
Book 6: Descent into the Underworld
Book 7: The Seeds of War
Book 8: The Shield of Aeneas
Book 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan Camp
Book 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and Mezentius
Book 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of Camilla
Book 12: The Death of Turnus
, Bibliography
, Credits
, Index/Glossary
Reviews
"Powell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with." - Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University
"Powell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire'" - with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phrase
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