Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405159739)

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived.

• Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil's poetic style and imagery
  
• All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when necessary
  
• Provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed in its time
  
• Includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman religion and the Roman concept of 'character'
  
• Features a helpful appendix which clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter

Author: David Ross
ISBN-10: 1405159731
ISBN-13: 9781405159739
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.49d