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Auteur: Virgil
paperbackEngels440 blz.9780198149781
21-4-1994
Virgil's Georgics, by common consent one of the greatest poems in western literature, purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in literature and society. Meer
paperbackEngels268 blz.9780521359528
10-11-1994
Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Meer
gebondenEngels368 blz.9780141996332
1e druk
10-10-2024
In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering, in its physicality and its mystery. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140449327
27-3-2003
Inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, the Aeneid is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took Aeneas as his hero and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140440515
30-3-2006
Aeneas the True - son of Venus and of a mortal father - escapes from Troy after it is sacked by the Greeks. He undergoes many trials and adventures on a long sea journey. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140455632
25-11-2010
'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140444148
25-11-1982
A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, The Georgics is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140444193
26-1-1984
Haunting and enigmatic, Virgil's "Eclogues" combined a Greek literary form with scenes from contemporary Roman life to create a work that inspired a whole European tradition of pastoral poetry. Meer
gebondenEngels336 blz.9781529015010
12-9-2024
The travels of Aeneas are brought to life in Virgil’s epic poem, with an afterword by Coco Stevenson. Meer
gebondenEngels512 blz.9781324096436
26-9-2025
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom Meer
paperbackEngels512 blz.9781324098553
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately verse in a vivid, contemporary idiom Meer
PaperbackEngels9780143105138
1-4-2010
A story of arms and heroism that follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Meer
paperbackEngels352 blz.9780143106296
15-10-2024
Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the world of the dead - all the way tormented by the vengeful Juno, Queen of the Gods - and finally reaches Italy, where he will fulfil his destiny: to found the Roman people. Meer
GebondenAnders9781379629436
19-4-2018
PaperbackEngels9780872207318
15-3-2005
A classicist best known for his translations of Homer, Sappho, Hesiod, and Callimachus returns to Roman poetry, offering a resonant new Aeneid. Meer
GebondenEngels9780872207325
15-3-2005
A classicist best known for his translations of Homer, Sappho, Hesiod, and Callimachus returns to Roman poetry, offering a resonant new Aeneid. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521288064
4-10-1984
Accessible translations for GCSE students. The translated extracts from Virgil: Selections from the Aeneid, are linked by commentaries which continue the narrative and discuss points in the text needing explanation. Meer