The Aeneid of Virgil"Arma virumque cano: "I sing of warfare and a man at war." Long the bane of second-year Latin students thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. Full of betrayal, heartache, seduction, elation, and violence, the Aeneid is the great founding epic of the Roman empire. Its pages sing of the Roman vision of self, the Roman ideal of what it meant to be a citizen of the world's greatest power. The epic's force carries across the centuries, and remains essential reading."--Amazon.com |
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Acestes Achates Achilles Aeneas Aeolus altar Anchises Apollo Arcadians armour arms arrow Ascanius battle blazing blood breast bronze called Camilla chariot cloud Clytius comrades Creusa dark death deep destiny Dido Diomed earth enemy Eryx Etruscan Euryalus Evander eyes face fate father Faunus fight fire flames friends fury gates gave goddess gods gold golden Greeks hair hand head heart heaven helmet horses huge hurled INDIANENSIS Italians Italy javelin Jove Juno Juppiter Juturna killed king land Latins Latium Laurentine Lausus Lines look MDCCCXX Messapus Mezentius Mnestheus mother night Nisus once palace Pallas Priam queen river rock round Rutuli Rutulian sail saying Sergestus shield ships shore shoulders shouting Sibyl SIGILLUM spear spoke stars stood sword Tarchon tears temple Teucrians Tiber town Trojans Troy Troy's Turnus UNIVERSITATIS LUX Venus VERITAS walls waves weapons wind wood words wound