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Book The Latin Classics

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  • Author : James Lonsdale
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Latin Classics written by James Lonsdale and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pastoral and Epic Literature

Download or read book Pastoral and Epic Literature written by Virgile and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Eclogues

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-06-08
  • ISBN : 9781533667540
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Eclogues written by Virgil and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eclogues by Virgil The Eclogues, also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Greek Bucolica ("on care of cattle", so named from the poetry's rustic subjects) by Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil introduced political clamor largely absent from Theocritus' poems, called idylls ("little scenes" or "vignettes"), even though erotic turbulence disturbs the "idyllic" landscapes of Theocritus. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue ("draft" or "selection" or "reckoning"), populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on the Roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made Virgil a celebrity, legendary in his own lifetime.

Book Eclogues

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977-05-12
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Eclogues written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1977-05-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of pastoral poems written by this Roman about 37BC.

Book Aeneid

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1976-07-08
  • ISBN : 9780521290470
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Aeneid written by Virgil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-07-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Latin text with interpretation emphasizing the comparative literature approach.

Book The Latin classics  v  1  Drama  ethics  v  2  Pastoral and epic literature  Virgil  v  3  Horace and the satirists  v  4  Poetry

Download or read book The Latin classics v 1 Drama ethics v 2 Pastoral and epic literature Virgil v 3 Horace and the satirists v 4 Poetry written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil s Eclogues

Download or read book Virgil s Eclogues written by Virgil and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics, or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid, they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later, more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem, as practiced by earlier Greek poets, mix political, social, historical, artistic, and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. Poet Len Krisak's vibrant metric translation captures the music of Virgil's richly textured verse by employing rhyme and other sonic devices. The result is English poetry rather than translated prose. Presenting the English on facing pages with the original Latin, Virgil's Eclogues also features an introduction by scholar Gregson Davis that situates the poems in the time in which they were created.

Book The Collected Works of Virgil

Download or read book The Collected Works of Virgil written by Virgil and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. "Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. "The Eclogues" – Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by offering a dramatic and mythic interpretation of revolutionary change at Rome in the turbulent period between roughly 44 and 38 BC. Virgil's book contains ten pieces, each called not an idyll but an eclogue, populated by and large with herdsmen imagined conversing and performing amoebaean singing in largely rural settings, whether suffering or embracing revolutionary change or happy or unhappy love. Performed with great success on the Roman stage, they feature a mix of visionary politics and eroticism that made Virgil a celebrity, legendary in his own lifetime. "The Georgics" – The subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from being an example of peaceful rural poetry, it is a work characterized by tensions in both theme and purpose. The Georgics is considered Virgil's second major work, following his Eclogues and preceding the Aeneid. The poem draws on a variety of prior sources and has influenced many later authors from antiquity to the present. The Georgics consists of 2,188 hexametric verses divided into four books. The yearly timings by the rising and setting of particular stars were valid for the precession epoch of Virgil's time, and so are not always valid now.

Book Aeneid in Latin

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-05-30
  • ISBN : 9781514163672
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Aeneid in Latin written by Virgil and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Virgil's Aeneid is in the original Latin. The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas's wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' victorious war against the Latins.

Book Virgil

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  • Author : Alison Keith
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-12-12
  • ISBN : 1350114359
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Virgil written by Alison Keith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the Bucolics, Georgics and Aeneid, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture of the West. Emphasis is placed on Virgil's reception of the classical literary and philosophical traditions, and on how his poetry has attracted modern interest from writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Book

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Francis Cairns Publications
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book written by Virgil and published by Francis Cairns Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin text with a verse translation and brief notes.

Book The Works of Virgil in Latin and English     The Aeneid Translated by C  Pitt  The Eclogues and Georgics  with Notes on the Whole  by J  Warton  With Several New Observations  by Mr  Holdsworth  Mr  Spence and Others  Also a Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the   neid  by Mr  Warburton  On the Shield of Aeneas  by W  Whitehead  On the Character of Iapis by Dr  Atterbury  and Three Essays on Pastoral  Didactic  and Epic Poetry  by the Editor  J  Warton

Download or read book The Works of Virgil in Latin and English The Aeneid Translated by C Pitt The Eclogues and Georgics with Notes on the Whole by J Warton With Several New Observations by Mr Holdsworth Mr Spence and Others Also a Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the neid by Mr Warburton On the Shield of Aeneas by W Whitehead On the Character of Iapis by Dr Atterbury and Three Essays on Pastoral Didactic and Epic Poetry by the Editor J Warton written by Virgil and published by . This book was released on 1753 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aeneis

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1991-10-25
  • ISBN : 9780521278164
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Aeneis written by Virgil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book XI of the Aeneid covers four crucial days in Aeneas' struggle against the Latins. In it, Virgil gives us the funeral of Pallas, the great Latin war-council, Turnus' plan to ambush Aeneas, and the aristeia and death of Camilla. K. W. Gransden sees the second half of the Roman national epic as "Virgil's Iliad." In his introduction and commentary, he relates the themes and structure of Book XI not only to the rest of the Aeneid but also to relevant passages in the Iliad. Gransden shows how, despite his adoption of the epic form, Virgil's style is influenced by Alexandrian miniaturism, Callimachean theory, and the poetry of the neoteroi. In addition to questions of style and interpretation raised in the commentary, there are sections in the introduction covering the Virgilian hexameter and narrative technique.

Book Pastoral and epic literature  Virgil

Download or read book Pastoral and epic literature Virgil written by Marion Mills Miller and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virgil in English

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Penguin Classics
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Virgil in English written by Virgil and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1996 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For T. S. Eliot, Virgil was not merely one of the great masters but 'our classic, the classic of all Europe'. Perhaps no other writer has generated a longer and larger tradition of commentary, translation and imitation." "From Chaucer to W. H. Auden and Robert Lowell, Virgil is a defining presence in English poetry. The Eclogues and Georgics inspired the pastorals of Spenser, Milton and Pope; the Aeneid's pathos, spiritual insights and long-suffering hero - who struggles with doubt, despair and the loss of everything he loves to found the Roman race - made it the model epic. Dryden's complete Virgil in heroic couplets sums up the supersedes his predecessors, yet later translators include Wordsworth, William Morris, Robert Bridges and Cecil Day Lewis. This selection consists largely of extracts from straight translations, along with a number of pieces illustrating Virgil's influence; celebrated episodes like the death of Dido and Aeneas's descent into the underworld appear in several different versions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Virgil s Georgics

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  • Author : Virgil
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2006-12-01
  • ISBN : 9780300119862
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Virgil s Georgics written by Virgil and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful new verse translation of one of the greatest nature poems ever written. 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 translation presents the poem in an American idiom that is elegant and sensitive to the meaning and rhythm of the original. Janet Lembke brings a faithful version of Virgil's celebratory poem to modern readers who are interested in classic literature and who relish reading about animals and gardens. The word georgics meansfarming. Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poem gives specific instructions to Italian farmers along with a passionate message to care for the land and for the crops and animals that it sustains. The Georgics is also a heartfelt cry for returning farmers and their families to land they had lost through a series of dispiriting political events. It is often considered the most technically accomplished and beautiful of all of Virgil's work.