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Book Aeneas  Virgil s Epic Retold for Younger Readers

Download or read book Aeneas Virgil s Epic Retold for Younger Readers written by Virgil and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Aeneas and the founding of Rome has excitement and adventure, romance and magic, humour and sadness. Emily Frenkel's retelling is fresh and direct. Simon Weller's illustrations are fabulous.

Book Aeneas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emily Frenkel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Aeneas written by Emily Frenkel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome has excitement and adventure, magic and romance, humour and sadness.

Book Virgil s Aeneid Retold for Young Adults

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid Retold for Young Adults written by Frank Hering and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Kindle Version With the Purchase of a New Amazon Paperback Edition. After ten years of war, Troy has fallen to the Greeks. Now, the hero Aeneas leads the Trojan refugees on a quest to establish a new homeland. The son of the goddess Venus, Aeneas knows he must build the city that will one day become Rome. Over two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Virgil wrote the epic chronicling this Trojan hero's wanderings and battles. While stories about the dictates of fate and about gods helping their children may seem old-fashioned, the story still speaks to the issues of our times, issues of war and peace, love and loss, duty and pleasure, privilege and self-determination, the triumph of battles won and the tragedy of battles lost, new countries founded on lands occupied by others and immigrants excluded by established residents. In the tradition of Black Ships Before Troy, Virgil's Aeneid Retold for Young Adults offers a fresh retelling of the myth in modern English. Preserving the order and major events and characters of the original, this book makes the Aeneid accessible to readers unfamiliar with the grand poetic style and length of ancient epic. The author, who has taught high-school students since 2000, creates more realistic dialogue and shortens sections where students often get bogged down. Descriptions, particularly those of the battle scenes, seek to clarify parts of the original that can be difficult to visualize. The occasional inclusion of an oft-used phrase from epic poetry helps to preserve the tone and atmosphere of the Aeneid. The book includes discussion questions to help readers begin to think about themes, characterization, and literary technique. A number of the questions ask readers to think about the situations and motivations of minor characters, such as Iarbas and Amata, and the leadership qualities of Dido. Also included is an extensive glossary describing major characters and providing the pronunciation of their names, which students preparing to read Virgil's poem in their English or Latin classes will find very useful. The book can also be used to review for the AP Latin exam. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Hering earned his B.A. in English from the University of Chicago and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. He has taught 9th- and 11th-grade English classes at Elgin Academy in Illinois since 2004. He frequently teaches the Odyssey and parts of the Iliad and the Aeneid to his Freshmen.

Book The Aeneid for Boys and Girls

Download or read book The Aeneid for Boys and Girls written by Alfred J Church and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original "Aeneid" is an epic poem composed by Virgil in the 1st century BCE. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero who escapes the fall of Troy and embarks on a journey to fulfill his destiny of founding Rome. Church's adaptation simplifies the language and narrative structure of Virgil's epic, making it more suitable for children and young readers. "The Aeneid for Boys and Girls" serves as an educational tool, allowing young readers to engage with classical literature and mythology in a format that is more accessible and understandable to them. First published in 1907, it continues to be used in educational settings to introduce children to the rich world of classical literature and storytelling. This new large print edition comes with an Easy to Read Layout designed to make reading comfortable.

Book To Hell and Back

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-28
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book To Hell and Back written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book for people who love a good story--this story has truly stood the test of time. Millions of people continue to discover it and love it, generation after generation, even 2,050 after it was first made available to the public. It's about the hero's quest; it's about a good man dealing with incredibly difficult decisions. If you've always wondered who Aeneas was, who Dido was, what all the famous artwork is about, and what the opera Dido and Aeneas is about--this book will give you all the background, in easy-to-read language. If you're looking for a book that's a page-turner, that has characters who stay in your imagination long after you've finished reading, then this is the book for you. Below is an excerpt: -- This story is about a man-Aeneas-who endured hardships on sea and land to fulfill his destiny and establish a city that would become the epicenter of a vast and mighty empire. The gods had blessed Aeneas with courage, strength, beauty, humility, wisdom, and skill in warfare. He was the one who had been chosen to father a race of men who would one day rule the world. The goddess Hera, wife to Zeus, had a deep and abiding hatred for the Trojans. Long ago, in a beauty contest for goddesses, a Trojan named Paris had failed to select Hera as the winner, wounding Hera's pride and profoundly offending her. At another point in the past, a beautiful Trojan man named Ganymede had stolen the hearts of many gods, Zeus among them. This was another offense that Hera could not forgive. And there was the prophecy stating that the city that Aeneas planned to establish would one day destroy Hera's beloved city of Carthage. For all these reasons, Hera devoted herself to thwarting the Trojans at every opportunity. Her fondest wish was to eliminate every last Trojan from the Earth. Aeneas and his brave Trojan refugees, from their ships, spotted the coast of Italy in the distance. Finally! After years spent traveling-years facing obstacles and dealing with setbacks-they were now about to reach their destination. Hera, seeing this, became enraged. Desperate to stop them, she thought of the various ways she could annihilate this stubborn Trojan remnant once and for all. Hera visited King Aeolus and asked him to send a storm that would sink all of Aeneas' ships. King Aeolus had been designated by Zeus as the keeper the Earth's winds. To keep the Earth safe, King Aeolus kept the winds locked in a mountain. In exchange for Aeolus' help, Hera promised to give him a nymph he had long loved. Aeolus pounded the mountain one time with his fist, and a portal opened up in the rock. The two strongest winds-Eastwind and Southwind-came screaming out, furious at having been locked away so long, and eager to do as much damage as possible in the shortest amount of time. They immediately swept towards Aeneas' ships. Aeneas and his companions saw the clouds thicken suddenly. Where there had been sunlight, now there was darkness. They felt the boat lift up, lurch to the side, and then sink down freefalling in a twenty-foot swell. Without the slightest warning or signal, they found themselves in the midst of a hurricane! Aeneas tried to keep an eye on the other ships, but the swells and the walls of crashing water made it impossible. All he could do was hear. He heard the shouts of his men as they fought to survive the storm. He heard the screams and cries of others as they were pulled overboard by the angry sea. He heard ropes snapping and breaking. He heard wood creaking and cracking. Above it all he heard the roar of the storm, the wind and water pounding his ship again and again. -- Experience the unforgettable story for yourself!

Book Virgil s Aeneid

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Editions and helpful books": p. 26-28.

Book Selections from Virgil s Aeneid Books 7 12

Download or read book Selections from Virgil s Aeneid Books 7 12 written by Ashley Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the second half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for students working through individual books or the whole poem. The commentary notes explain references to characters, places and events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the progression of the poem as a whole. An introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical context and includes a glossary of literary devices and essays explaining the principles of Virgil's word order and metre. At the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list.

Book Virgil s  Aeneid   A Retelling in Prose

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid A Retelling in Prose written by David Bruce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aeneid for Boys and Girls

Download or read book The Aeneid for Boys and Girls written by Alred J. Church and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Aeneid as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire. Thrill with him as he gets caught up in conflicts between the gods, all the while striving to complete his own grand destiny. Virgil intended this book to be a sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and as such it takes up with events just after the finish of the Odyssey. Inscribed here are myths and legends and tales of bravery destined to last for all time.

Book Virgil s Aeneid

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of   neas

Download or read book The Story of neas written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selections from Virgil s Aeneid Books 1 6

Download or read book Selections from Virgil s Aeneid Books 1 6 written by Ashley Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for students working through individual books or the whole poem. The commentary notes explain references to characters, places and events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the progression of the poem as a whole. An in-depth introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical contexts; a glossary of literary devices and sections on style and metre are included. At the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list.

Book The Story of Aeneas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry S. Salt
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-17
  • ISBN : 1107637309
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Story of Aeneas written by Henry S. Salt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1928, this book contains a translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English verse. Salt retains the half-lines present in the Latin original, and uses a variety of rhyming schemes to convey the sense as well as the literal meaning of the epic. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Virgil and the history of the transmission of his most famous work.

Book The Aeneid of Virgil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Bantam Classics
  • Release : 2003-07-29
  • ISBN : 0553897780
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Aeneid of Virgil written by Virgil and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people.

Book Virgil s Aeneid

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil Aeneid X  A Selection

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Tanfield
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-04-28
  • ISBN : 1474266118
  • Pages : 137 pages

Download or read book Virgil Aeneid X A Selection written by Christopher Tanfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Virgil's Aeneid X, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for lines 215–250, 260–307, 362–398 and 426–542. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English for A Level. In Book X, the story moves from a council of the gods, via a depiction of Aeneas's return by sea to his beleaguered Trojan camp, to a bloody field of battle. We see Aeneas for the first time as a heroic warrior, but also afflicted by the searing pain of loss as the young son of his new ally, entrusted to him by his father, is killed. Aeneas is for now cheated of his revenge, a revenge which is the preoccupation of the rest of the poem. He does, however, slay the son of a champion of the opposition and then the champion himself, in scenes which re-emphasise that pain. The heart of the book, where Aeneas and his allies join the fray, constitutes the OCR selection. It is an immensely powerful confrontation between violence and compassion, cruelty and nobility.

Book Virgil s Aeneid

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1875
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 636 pages

Download or read book Virgil s Aeneid written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: