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This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translato …

This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas – like Odysseus in Odyssey XI – visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his ’Homeric’ past, the wanderings he has undergone …

This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas – like Odysseus in Odyssey XI – visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his ’Homeric’ past, the wanderings he has undergone …

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love …

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love …

In Book IV of Virgil’s "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, a …

In Book IV of Virgil’s "Aeneid", one of the most studied books of that epic poem, Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, a …

In Book II of the "Aeneid", Aeneas relates to Dido his own account of Troy’s destruction and his escape, including the episode of the Wooden Horse. It is some of the best Latin poetry ever …

In Book II of the "Aeneid", Aeneas relates to Dido his own account of Troy’s destruction and his escape, including the episode of the Wooden Horse. It is some of the best Latin poetry ever …

Many macks fall and never recover. Their success ends when they lose their bottom lady. As a result, they end up either on the sidelines, or out of the game, completely. The game, though, keeps movin …

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, be …

What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves …

Rome’s great Epic poet has inspired readers and writers for centuries. This collection offers e Readers multiple translations of Virgil’s works, as well as the original Latin texts and a special dual …

Virgil’s Georgics is a paean to the earth and all that grows and grazes there. It is an ancient work, yet one that speaks to our times as powerfully as it did to the poet’s. This unmatched translatio …