Authors: Virgil
ISBN-13: 9780217999618, ISBN-10: 0217999611
Format: Paperback
Publisher: General Books LLC
Date Published: February 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Frederick Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. His books include Sophocles' Oedipus, Seneca's Phaedra, Lucan: An Introduction, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. He lives in Ithaca, NY.
Monumental epic poem of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west — Rome.
A new and noble standard bearer . . . There's a capriciousness to Fagles's line well suited to this vast story's ebb and flow.