AENEID OF VERGIL,TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE virgil

VERGIL RUDEN, SARAH TRANS; BRAUND, SUSANNA INTRO; HILLIARD, EMMA NOTE, GLOSSARY virgil

ISBN 10: 0300240104 / ISBN 13: 9780300240108

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2021

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VERY GOOD CONDITION PAPERBACK.CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; white titles on black COVER & spine strip.substantial revision ; 6 SPEARS COVER ART; 362PG pages; Roman soldier cover art. LARGE GLOSSARY OF NAMES.Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a translator exceeds the standard that she has set COVER BLURB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AENEID OF VERGIL,TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE virgil
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300240104
• ISBN 13: 9780300240108
• Binding: paperback
• Illustrator: Illustrated by VOLVOVSKI, JENNY COVER DESIGN
• Edition: FIRST EDITION,6p THUS; 1098765pt line.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A powerful and poignant translation of Vergil’s epic poem, newly equipped with introduction and notes
 
“Ruden set the bar for Aeneid translations in 2008, and has raised it now with this revision. I am confident it will be a long time before a translator exceeds the standard that she has set.”―A. M. Juster, Athenaeum Review
 
This is a substantial revision of Sarah Ruden’s celebrated 2008 translation of Vergil’s Aeneid, which was acclaimed by Garry Wills as “the first translation since Dryden’s that can be read as a great English poem in itself.” Ruden’s line-for-line translation in iambic pentameter is an astonishing feat, unique among modern translations. Her revisions to the translation render the poetry more spare and muscular than her previous version and capture even more closely the essence of Vergil’s poem, which pits national destiny against the fates of individuals, and which resonates deeply in our own time.
 
This distinguished translation, now equipped with introduction, notes, and glossary by leading Vergil scholar Susanna Braund, allows modern readers to experience for themselves the timeless power of Vergil’s masterpiece.

About the Author

Sarah Ruden is an award-winning classics scholar, a poet, and a widely published writer on religion and culture. She is the author of Vergil: The Poet’s Life. Her many translated works include Apuleius’s Golden Ass. Susanna Braund is professor of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia.