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Aeneid by Virgil

Sea or no sea, canʻt I have more than 5? Hate to limit it like that. Well (no order of preference intended) Aeneid of Vergil Gospel of John Gospel of Luke Dhammapada Finnegans Wake of Joyce . . .

... to translate the text into artificially archaic English just for the hell of it. For instance, I'm translating Vergil's Aeneid right now, and it's annoying trying to check my translation against the Loeb version, because it just ends up being confusing. Instead of just giving a straight up ...

Finished The Aeneid last week. This week I'm restarting Les Miserables. I'm doing a group read so maybe I'll actually finish it this time. I also am dipping into The Canterbury Tales

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - good story, I see why people keep reading it. Reminded me of LM Montgomery The Aeneid by Virgil - I was never as familiar with this story as The Iliad or The Odyssey so I'm glad I read this. Confessions of Augustine - probably not one I'll ever read again ...

... but now I want to see what City of God by Augustine is like since this one didn't really strike me very often 109. The Aeneid by Virgil - the Fitzgerald translation - Not reading for the poetry or in depth details, but for the overall story and it works well. Wikipedia article helped ...

I spend too much time on the Internet:/ Like just now, I'm all reading the Aeneid, and I put the book down to pop onto Wikipedia and remind myself about what Sarpedon's whole story was, and now it's an hour later.

Incidentally, I think the black binding of The Aeneid works precisely because of the blind-stamped Petrina design. This technique of a blind-stamped design on black binding was used more than once by the Heritage Press, notably in the Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln and in the first Heritage ...

... On the whole, I think that the design of the Heritage edition is superior. I felt the same about the original Heritage Aeneid, the Szyk Rubaiyat, and several others. Do any other fans have a similar feeling? And for which volumes do you think the Heritage Press design trumps the LEC?

... feature that I want other people to have for my benefit but wouldn't want myself.) A lot of my classical texts, like the Aeneid, consist of maybe 30 pages of the actual text followed by 200 pages of commentary, which I only look at selectively. Of course, my tagging may not be perfect, and ...

... leaps out at me), in addition to your dictionaries and textbooks, it's hard for me to understand how something like the Aeneid is something that intrinsically is not suited to being described as either "read" or "unread". At any rate, though, I didn't mean to speak generally, and I ...

Once you get as far as Rome, you'll need Virgil on the list. And I'm curious how well Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire stands up these days in classical studies? I've never read it but I've been tempted.

The Aeneid of Virgil: a Verse Translation by Rolfe Humphreys

In no order of preference; just alphabetical by title: Aeneid by Virgil Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist\ by Ammon Hennacy The Confidence Man: his Masquerade by Herman Melville Dhammapada anon. (Buddhist scripture First Corinthians by ...

... the city of Troy. I liked this play more than I thought I would – possibly because of taking Latin and reading the Aeneid in high school – and I’d like to read it again after brushing up on my Trojan War knowledge. Shakespeare’s take on the conflict is very interesting, and ...

... Winesburg, Ohio, "Hitchiker's Guide" books Since 40 - Guy Davenport's Geography of the Imagination, Waverley, Aenied, Wuthering Heights, What is the what, A Palpable Elysium, {Boswell's London Journal, The Third Policeman, Dracula, A Natural History of Selborne, Herodo ...

... Winesburg, Ohio, "Hitchiker's Guide" books Over 40 - Guy Davenport's Geography of the Imagination, Waverley, Aenied, Wuthering Heights, What is the what, A Palpable Elysium, {Boswell's London Journal, The Third Policeman, Dracula, A Natural History of Selborne, Herodo ...

Book 30 of 2009 Book 85 in total 85/1000 The Aeneid - Virgil

"Faunus, son of Woodpecker" -- Vergilʻs Aeneid

>376 I'm on the look out for a copy of The Aeneid (Latin Version) Old or new, I'm not bothered. As long as it's in Latin. Anyone?

Have moved to a non Folio book (gasp) for my next read. An Everyman Library edition of the Aeneid by Virgil.

... I could say, but overall is harder. Iʻll put down as candidates for the "overall" award: The Gospel of John and The Aeneid of Vergil Best in a U.S. history topic: Glory Road by Bruce Catton Best U.S. novel: Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac (It is a tremendous improvement ...

... ures: 863--Spanish fiction: Don Quixote 870--Italic literatures; Latin: 873--Latin epic poetry & fiction: The Aeneid 880--Hellenic literatures; Classical Greek: Oedipus 882--Classical Greek drama: The Oresteia 883--Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Odys ...

... dithering French Second Empire aristocracy, Vollmann also wants to hypnotize us (or at least numb us) as he leads us like Virgil into yet another ring of Hell. The off-key metaphors work to jerk us out of our sleep. Given Vollmann's track record with prostitutes and his work for social ...

... a doubt" that Virgil hated Augustus. The author did this by linking two related verbs about 600 lines apart in the Aeneid. I thought it a very weak argument and questioned the author's use of such definite language in presenting a theory about an unfinished poem based on two related, ...

... (A little early...) I haven't read the Fagle's translation of The Iliad and The Odyssey, but I read his translation of The Aeneid and loved it... have to see if I can get my hands on those eventually!

... of Virgil* *aka Publius Vergilius Maro; the alternate English spelling "VErgil" upon which my high school text of The Aeneid insisted is based on the above correct Latin spelling.

... The Scarlett Letter. I'm not sure if those are classics though. I would have liked to read more Greek books The Odyssey Aeneid The Last Days of Socrates. I second Frankenstein it's a great book. I'd also recommend The Golden Warrior although that might take a lot of work for summer ...

... really depressed I read Inferno again, maybe one day I'll read the other two parts again. 9. If you want to read this read The Aenied, the Iliad and the Odyssey first.

I just finished Le Guin's Powers, and have started on her Lavinia. (I get the sense her revisiting of The Aeneid informed a lot of her world-building in the Gifts/Voices/Powers trilogy.)

... initial illustration, signed by the illustrator, E.A. Wilson, and this is fully worthy to be an LEC. Other treasures are: The Aeneid, in the first publication with the Dryden translation and illustrations by Carlotta Petrina (with a beuatiful binding with one of Ms. Petrina's designs ...

43. Classic Lit- Ancient The Aeneid by Virgil The story of Aeneas and a band of Trojan refugees after the Trojan War. They set out to find a new homeland and end up setting the ground work for the Roman Empire. I couldn't get into the book and so had a hard time reading it. Not that it ...

43. The Aeneid by Virgil Took me forever to finish this book. It wasn't just hard to read, it was hard for me to get into. I didn't enjoy it as much as The Iliad and The Odyssey,but it was worth the the time. The story of Aeneas and a band of Trojan refugees, as they seek a new homeland ...

I LOVE both THE ODYSSEY and ILIAD (particularly the Robert Fagles translations) but AENEID I found stupefyingly dull. Had to really struggle to get through it. Indeed, it's no ODYSSEY and Virgil was no Homer. Not even in the same ballpark. Do try Conn Iggulden's writing--he's brilliant ...

>16 The Aeneid by Virgil is interesting reading too--it's Virgil's attempt (commissioned by Augustus) to create a historical-mythological grounding of Rome in the fall of Troy and the very oldest classical mythology. (It even contains the creation of an ancient historical reason for the Punic War ...

Actually so did I. I took a break from the Aeneid, and I thought I'd enjoy it more.

... Greek literature phase of having done the Odyssey for a second time, the Iliad and currently half way through the Aeneid. One of the things that is standing out for me in the Aeneid, as in the Iliad, is the freedom with men are so often crying. Also, in the Aeneid, death and dying ...

... suppose to read those in high school but joined a readers theater and got out of it. A heads up I will be reading Iliad, Aeneid, and Plato's Republic next. Of course I hope to work some fun reads in there. >ficusfan She had just come home from a rehab center and for a few weeks she was ...

Or The Aeneid by Virgil. It traces Roman roots to the Trojan war. I was told in school that it can be seen as a sequel to the Illiad.

I have the Fagles Aeneid but that's it, I'm afraid.

... combining the Latin texts with the translations? I just don't see the benefit, especially for hugely popular works like the Aeneid.

128- JP and I bought books today too! We weren't at a book fair, but it was a flea market that had books. I bought The Aeneid and The Odessey for myself, and I bought The Monster's Ring and The Skull of Truth for my brother for his birthday.

... And, of course, the pictures are quite lovely. For my course prep, last week I read some selections from Vergil's Aeneid, and this week it's Book one of Livy.

... to a classic work that I was completely unfamiliar with. I'm currently reading Fagles' Odyssey and then I want to read Aeneid (haven't decided if I'll go with Fagles or some one else's translation for that). That said, I intend to read Pope, Lattimore, Lombardo, and maybe other ...

... sort of belong in more than one category, and I'm constantly re-arranging everything :-) Like, take something like Virgil's Aeneid... should it go under Romans? Or mythology? because it's kind of both! That is, it was written as "history" for propagandistic purposes during Augustus' reign, but ...

... can handle Homer & a dash of Dante(am I a poet & don't know it :)), what on Earth's keeping you away from Virgils's "Aeneid" or Spenser's "Faerie Queen"?

... Lost, since I read it in high school and don't remember anything. The same thing for the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, which I also read in high school. Those I need to revisit to appreciate them.

... Classics Romance Novels Young Adult Letters(War or Fictional) War Novels Books that start with the letter 'A' (Like the Aeneid) Books about Animals (Like Watership Down) Fantasy

... political thrillers. I'm a big fan of classics, so may I recommend The Little Prince, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, or any other classic. Do you like nonfiction? Do you have any interests such as sports, nutrition, politics, etc. that I (or any HE member) could find a ...

... major English-language writers who were also major translators. The number one who comes to my mind is Dryden, for his Aeneid. (I've never read his Georgics.) As to Pope, though, I don't at all like his Iliad. As to Chaucer, I don't see The Romance of the Rose or his Boethius as ...

... & Adonis Atalanta & Hippomenes The Homeric Hymn to Demeter The Bacchae by Euripides The Odyssey Book 11 The Aeneid Book 6

... passage. #18: AWilkins: I agree with dk - Lombardo is the best translation for The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid that's out there right now. I had the chance to see (hear) him give a couple of readings from his Iliad and Aeneid translations, and he's wonderful. His ...

... has kept track of the movements in critical theory, literature, and feminism. Her latest work Lavinia, a retelling of The Aeneid from a minor character's point of view, is lovely. LeGuin's afterward, an elegy for Latin, is lovely although perhaps premature. I think Latin has more kick ...

... a funeral pyre. And later, Queen Amata offs herself because she doesn't want to be a mother-in-law, I guess. Check out The Aeneid.

I wasn't aware of Fagles' translation of The Aeneid, and was curious to se who published it. On ABEBOOKS I found the following arresting entry: The Aeneid (Signed First Edition) Virgil, Translated by Robert Fagles; Introduction by Bernard Knox Bookseller: Dan Pope Books (West Hartford, CT, ...

Fiction - Classics 1. The Divine Comedy (Longfellow)/The Inferno (Pinsky) by Dante Alighieri 2. The Aeneid by Virgil 3. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 4. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (Reading Globally) 5. Un ...

... 79, though, was some 'heavy liftin' as I say: The Divine Comedy by Dante The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin The Aeneid by Virgil The entire Lonesome Dove series A good year, overall!

... bottom - I'll still reach 81 7. Drama & Poetry 1. Hamlet by Shakespeare - done 2. The Odyssey by Homer - done 3. The Aeneid by Virgil - done 4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 5. Paradise Lost by John Milton 6. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri - done 7. Cyrano De ...

... the way. Maybe these should be my New Year's resolutions. Of the books I have lying around, I would like to get to read The Aeneid early next year, with a view to taking on The Death of Virgil afterwards. I have previously dipped into both Dante's Inferno and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ...

Howards End by E. M. Forster 12/22/08 Aeneid by Virgil 12/23/08 The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy 12/24/08 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 12/27/08

... literature that pre-dates both the Eastern and Western Churches (literature such as Plato's "Republic" and Virgil's "Aeneid"). I should have written: "hell as we know it."

2. Classic Lit- (DONE) Ancient: 1. Aeneid read 6-10-2009 2. The Republicread 8-6-2009 3. The Iliad read 6-10-2009 Before 1900: 4. Pilgrams Progress read 9-03-2009 5. Cyrano de Bergerac read 1-11-2009 6. Arthurian Romances read 6-11-2009 After 1900: 7. A Tree Grows in Brook ...

... Picture of Dorian Gray Finished Mar 22 v. Brideshead Revisited Finished Apr 5 vi. Dubliners Finished May 31 vii. The Aeneid Finished June 25 viii. Dr Zhivago ix. 1984

5. Authors I haven't read yet 1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 2. The Aeneid, Virgil 3. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak 4. Perfume, Patrick Suskind 5. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins 6. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje 7. Mapp and Lucia, E.F. Benson

"Nearby, above a mound, a copse of dogwood and myrtle bushes bristle, thick with shoots." from Aenied by Virgil

"Relieve yourself of fear, my lady of Cythera, the fate of your children stands unchanged, I swear." The Aeneid by Virgil

... wrapped in blankets and drinking tea (err...wine). Other good winter reads: Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger The Aeneid by Virgil The Sportswriter by Richard Ford The Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard Poetry by Anne Sexton, James Merrill and William Car ...

... importance it easily stands beside Beowulf, The Song of Roland and The Ramayana , even perhaps The Iliad and The Aeneid in world literature. And while it is a celebration of a warrior king -- he is his mother's son!

... - Gass Nightmare Abbey - Peacock Two Years Before the Mast - Dana Gil Blas of Santillane - LeSage, tr. Smollett Aeneid - Virgil, tr. Fagles Selected Poems - Geofrey Hill Burmese Days - Orwell Metamorphoses - Ovid, tr. Martin Best - Smollett's translation of Gil Blas ...

... and reference in the new works without reading their inspirations. Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia is based on Virgil's The Aeneid, and I have done zero reading of Greek or Roman classics. I'd really want to read the original before reading her riff on it. John Crowley's Lord Byron's Nov ...

... holes in my reading King Lear Mrs. Dalloway* (also counts for fiction by women) The Canterbury Tales Inferno The Aeneid Gulliver's Travels Paradise Lost The Iliad Feminism The Second Sex Sister Outsider The Dialectic of Sex Ain't I a Woman The Female Eunuc ...

Aeneid Odyssey Lusiads Gulliver's Travels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Jungle Book Divine Comedy Pilgrim's Progress Wind in the Willows Wonderful Wizard of Oz

I've read Homer, but I've never read Virgil, so The Aeneid is the book I'd like to read from christiquc's library.

... and probably ought to be combined only with other Harvard Classics editions. In other cases, such as Don Quixote or The Aeneid, the HC volume is just another edition of the general work, and can be combined. Someday, we suppose, there will be another layer called something like "Publishe ...

I began The Aeneid Fitzgerald translation and tortuously made it halfway, just beyond Dido's self-immolation. I then received the Fagles translation as a gift and started over and got just barely beyond that point. Maybe it's better in Latin but I say: yawn!

... my supervisor is constantly lamenting). He's technically brilliant and he was a landmark poet, but 200 lines of the Aeneid will put me to sleep. However, the Fagles translation is one of the most entertaining just to read. Also, I love Seneca's Medea, particularly when Medea cries ...

67. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin. A homage to Vergil's The Aeneid, Le Guin takes a minor female character in the latter books of the poem, and weaves a whole world. I enjoyed reading about what early pre-Rome Italy might have been like, and the practice of the ancient Latin religion.

I picked up The Audubon Society Field Guide to the Night Sky and The Aeneid, both used.

I've never read the Aenied, and I'm considering doing that. However, I've been really into mysteries for some years now, and other types of books don't seem to move fast enough. I still usually have a non-fiction book in progress, but those books I read a little bit at a time, usually over ...

NF Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach Canterbury Tales by Chaucer The Aeneid by Virgil H Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins

30. The Aeneid

... a pretty standard part of the ritual. Ritually kill some sheep, sleep on the fresh skins, dream the answer. You know, like Aeneid vii:

Hic et tum pater ipse petens responsa Latinus centum lanigeras mactabat rite bidentis atque harum effultus tergo stratisque iacebat velleribus

Doondeck in Folio Society devotees : Which books would you like to see as Folio volumes? (May 23, 2008, 11:16am)

... Salterton Trilogy and Cornish Trilogy as companions to the current Deptford Trilogy. Also Fagles translation of The Aeneid in the same design as his current translations of The Odyssey and The Illiad

mejix in Audiobooks : What are you listening to now? Part 3 (May 17, 2008, 11:35am)

... used to some readers. or maybe some days im crankier than others. last wednesday i picked up robert fagles' translation of the aeneid and blood meridian by cormac mccarthy. i listened to the beginining of both and found them a bit over the top, specially the reader for the aeneid. i stuck ...

A_musing in Reading Globally : Group Read: August: Myths Told and Retold (May 13, 2008, 2:39pm)

... a bit of retellings: Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hesiod's Theogony, as well as the Illiad, Odyssey and Aeneid, are all summaries of mythologies or stories incorporating mythologies. But, in all cases, there are many other sources as well.

A_musing in Reading Globally : Group Read: August: Myths Told and Retold (May 13, 2008, 12:21pm)

... are the ones about which I know. Outside the Canongate series, there's Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin. Her retelling of The Aeneid is fabulous, but then I'm a big fan of Le Guin. Christina Woolf's Cassandra is good as is Ursula Molinaro's retelling of the same story. Ellen Scott K ...

urania1 in Reading Globally : Future Theme Reads (May 11, 2008, 2:10am)

... are the ones about which I know. Outside the Canongate series, there's Lavinia by Ursula Le Guin. Her retelling of The Aeneid is fabulous, but then I'm a big fan of Le Guin. Christina Woolf's Cassandra is good as is Ursula Molinaro's retelling of the same story. Ellen Scott Kushn ...

cornerhouse in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mayl 2008 (May 3, 2008, 6:02pm)

... I have a particular weakness for re-tellings of classical stories. This also makes me think that I should re-read the Aeneid sometime soon. I may also start re-reading either the Iliad or the Odyssey this week, inspired by my recent reading of Alberto Manguel's book about Homer and ...

urania1 in Reading Globally : Urana1 on Global Safari: Searching for Interstices (Apr 27, 2008, 2:30pm)

... work last week while I was in Chicago. I'm starting with Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin, a retelling (sort of) of the Aeneid by Virgil. Le Guin has written an excellent afterward, that I recommend to anyone interested in the Aeneid itself. Then, I shall reread the Aeneid for about ...

digifish_books in 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically (Apr 22, 2008, 3:36am)

This topic is entitled "Best 1001 Books Alphabetically". I don't see The Aeneid on that list.

summerbis in 1001 Books to read before you die : Best 1001 Books Alphabetically (Apr 22, 2008, 3:10am)

Hi I'm new but I believe we are still in A? Yes? I hope so cause here's my A book: Aeneid, The by Virgil Does that count or are we going off of the 1001 list still???

vpfluke in Book talk : Novels that are poems (Apr 7, 2008, 3:01pm)

For epic poetry, you can add in the Aeneid by Virgil; and the Lusiads of Luís de Camões

varielle in Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery : Deaths in March 2008 (Mar 29, 2008, 2:37pm)

... Robert Fagles died March 26 at the age of 74. He is best known for his versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid.

_Zoe_ in LT's list of great books you should read : Top 25 (Mar 20, 2008, 5:49pm)

... Plays 13. Romeo and Juliet 14. Anna Karenina 15, War and Peace 16. A Wrinkle in Time 17. Macbeth 18. The Aeneid 19. The Republic 20. The Origin of Species 21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 22. Les Misérables 23. The Oresteia 24. Flowers for Alg ...

RMXtreme in 888 Challenge : RMXtreme's 888 (Mar 15, 2008, 8:14pm)

Plays / Poetry 1. Faust FINISHED 2. Aeneid FINISHED 3. Paradise Lost 4. Divine Comedy 5. MacBeth 6. Gilgamesh 7. Odyssey 8. Iliad 1001 books you must read before you die 1. Birdsong FINISHED 2. Disgrace FINISHED 3. The black dahlia FINISHED 4. The virgin ...

janeajones in Poetry Fool : Poems that tell stories (Mar 12, 2008, 10:48pm)

... used poetry since the beginning of language to tell their stories. From GILGAMESH to THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY and THE AENEID, from BEOWULF and THE SONG OF ROLAND to Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES and Shakespeare's VENUS AND ADONIS -- from Milton's PARADISE LOST to Tennyson's IDYL ...

paghababian in 50 Book Challenge : paghababian's 75 Book Challenge in 2008 (Feb 11, 2008, 8:11am)

... though. 10. Black Ships by Jo Graham - A moving and wonderfully written story that turns myth into reality. Virgil's Aeneid is an epic poem telling the tale of Aeneas as he searches for a new home for the Trojan exiles. Black Ships presents the same story in a much more approachable ...

Talbin in Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading Jan-April 08? (Feb 7, 2008, 2:37pm)

... I just finished my Early Reviewers Book, Black Ships by Jo Graham. A nicely written book that follows the events of The Aeneid from the point of view of Gull, an oracle.

_Zoe_ in Early Reviewers : Publishing Trends (Feb 7, 2008, 8:42am)

... I would say something like His Majesty's Dragon, a Mary Renault book (historical fiction set in the ancient world), The Aeneid, and one popular non-fiction book about the ancient world. I'm assuming that there are plenty of people who like historical fiction/fantasy, and that those are ...

Talbin in Early Reviewers : Publishing Trends (Feb 6, 2008, 4:54pm)

... it, but I think it had a lot more to do with the historical fiction in my library - and also, perhaps, because I also have The Aeneid, The Iliad and The Odyssey. With Black Ships, I imagine that people who like historical fiction would enjoy it more than someone who reads a lot of non-f ...

_Zoe_ in Early Reviewers : Publishing Trends (Feb 6, 2008, 3:25pm)

... regardless of time period, but didn't bother to throw in a non-fiction book about the ancient world or something like the Aeneid that (so the reviews say) the story is based on. If that's the case, I don't think they're fully taking advantage of the information that LibraryThing provides. I ...

undeadgoat in Dewey Decimal Challenge : undeadgoat's Dewey Decimal challenge (Jan 12, 2008, 11:59pm)

... Byron: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 851 Italian poetry -- The Inferno 873 Latin epic poetry & fiction -- The Aeneid 888 Classical Greek miscellaneous writings -- Great Dialogues, Plato 930 History of ancient world -- The Histories, Herodotus 938 History of ...

ArmyAngel1986 in 888 Challenge : AA1986...think I'll try this out! (Jan 4, 2008, 10:16pm)

Epics: 1. the Aeneid 2. Paradiso 3. the Iliad 4. the Odyssey 5. Paradise Lost 6. Beowulf I think these are sufficiently difficult to not require the full 8 books.

Lantzy in 20-Something LibraryThingers : Books for Christmas (Dec 28, 2007, 12:03am)

... by Plato The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Tempest by Troy Denning The Aeneid by Virgil

ksmyth in What did YOU buy today? : What are you buying OTHERS for the holidays? (Dec 23, 2007, 9:54pm)

... I picked up a copy of The Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds on the Balco scandal. I received a the latest translation of The Aeneid and David Halberstam's The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.

Lantzy in What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - DECEMBER 2007 (Dec 22, 2007, 4:51am)

... today and I ended up getting The Republic and Other Works by Plato, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and The Aenied by Virgil.

Django6924 in Folio Society devotees : Disappointments? (Dec 13, 2007, 1:14pm)

It's interesting that the Folio's Aeneid used the Dryden translation, which is the same as my Heritage Press edition. I think I agree with many critics who say it is the best poetic rendition because Dryden was the best poet, but it takes a while for a modern reader to get past the convention of ...

jveezer in Folio Society devotees : Disappointments? (Nov 14, 2007, 10:12am)

According to the Folio 50, the Aenied was published by the Folio Society in 1993 and a second printing was done in 1995. This was the Dryden translation. I am not sure whether there have been subsequent printings or a new edition since the 1995 printing.

twomoredays in Dewey Decimal Challenge : twomoredays 1000's challenge (Oct 28, 2007, 8:18am)

... alvino 863 Spanish Fiction - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 873 Latin Epic Poetry and Fiction - Aeneid by Virgil 882 Classical Greek Drama - Antigone by Sophocles 883 Classical Greek Epic Poetry and Fiction - The Illiad by Homer 891 East Indo-European and Celtic ...

stringcat3 in 50 Book Challenge : Stringcat3's list (Oct 21, 2007, 5:30pm)

46. The Aeneid - Virgil (Robert Fitzgerald, translator) 47. I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron

carlym in Dewey Decimal Challenge : Carlym's challenge list (Oct 12, 2007, 9:47am)

... Godot 843--French fiction: The Stranger 863--Spanish fiction: Don Quixote 873--Latin epic poetry & fiction: The Aeneid 880--Hellenic literatures; Classical Greek: Oedipus 882--Classical Greek drama: The Oresteia 883--Classical Greek epic poetry & fiction: The Odyssey ...

A_musing in Reading Globally : An Epic Journey (Sep 3, 2007, 6:05pm)

... Greece: The Odyssey and Iliad; both college reads for me that i'd like to reread sometime soon. Italy: The Aeneid, a long time ago, reading the Aeneid WAS Latin III - I didn't do very well in Latin III, but I did read it in the English as well. I read a new translation of Dant ...

desideo in 1001 Books to read before you die : A question for those who own the book. (Aug 28, 2007, 9:43am)

... it's definitely a mistake. Maybe he/they felt that certain poetry, and philosophy, and plays didn't belong on the list, but The Aeneid?!

christiguc in List Five Books Parlour Game : Allusions (Aug 11, 2007, 11:27am)

thorold (#270), I could argue that Virgil's Aeneid works.

Dori in Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now? (Aug 4, 2007, 8:03pm)

I am currently read four books, three of which are classics: The Idiot; Fyodor Dostoevsky The Aeneid; Virgil Don Quixote; Miguel de Cervantes

Dori in 50 Book Challenge : Dori's 50 (Aug 4, 2007, 12:48pm)

... now. It's a realtively quick read, considering the other books that I'm reading (Don Quixote, The Aeneid, The Idiot). The Aeneid, by Virgil (n/a pages; audio) Comments: I listening to this for another discussion group in which I am a part of.

Dori in 50 Book Challenge : Dori's 50 (Aug 3, 2007, 7:05pm)

... Date: Aug 4th, '07 Currently Reading (starting tomorrow): Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro (aka Virgil)

LittleKnife in Graduate Students : The most influential book you have read in your subject (Aug 3, 2007, 8:43am)

Probably reading the Aeneid and bits of Ovid in Latin for the first time was the most inspiring reading - it reminds you why you study a language when you watch technicians play with words and you know you need a page to explain what the image or joke on one line is. I can't really name ...

Corinne in 50 Book Challenge : corinne's book list (Jul 28, 2007, 1:34pm)

40. The Aeneid by Virgil 41. Dracula by Bram Stoker I think I'm going to try for 75, since I'm only 9 books from 50.

Corinne in What Are You Reading Now? : Share a line or passage from your current book, part 2 (Jul 24, 2007, 4:43pm)

From Robert Fagles' translation of The Aeneid: 'So long as rivers run to the sea, so long as shadows travel the mountain slopes and the stars range the skies, your honor, your name, your praise will live forever, whatever lands may call me to their shores.' and 'To what extremes ...

Corinne in What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - July 2007 (Jul 21, 2007, 9:18pm)

... used copy of The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company and a pretty, new hardcover copy of Fagles' translation of The Aeneid. Can't wait to start on that, as I loved his translations of The Odyssey and The Iliad.

darsu in What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list? (Jul 10, 2007, 9:25am)

... The Old Capital (the touchstone link with that phrase gives me a book on Korean history...) William Gaddis, JR Vergil, The Aeneid Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli Carlo Gadda, That Awful Mess on Via Merulana Robert Musil, The Man Without Quali ...

ForrestFamily in 50 Book Challenge : Megami's 2007 Challenge (Jul 3, 2007, 11:20pm)

... The Story Of The Iliad The Wanderings of Odysseus The History of the Peloponnesian War The Iliad The Odyssey The Aeneid Satyricon Handbook of Epictetus The Inferno Fiction Little Women - READ IT Black Dahlia -READ IT The eye of the storm For love alone Th ...

geneg in What Are You Reading Now? : Recommend Summer Books! (May 25, 2007, 12:26pm)

... Aeschylus Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles The Illiad by Homer - be sure to get a good translation The Aeneid by Vergil - be sure to get a good translation The Decameron by Boccaccio The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Anything by Agatha Christie ...

Kerian in Recommend Site Improvements : Improve swap option for cataloged books (Apr 30, 2007, 11:39pm)

... going through my library and saw that the swap section listed fourteen people as wanting one of my books. (Virgil's The Aeneid.) When I clicked the links, I found a most terrible error! The different editions are ignored, apparently, and an edition of the book was put into my BM ...

almigwin in poetry in translation : good, better , best and terrible translations and translators/editions (Apr 30, 2007, 9:49pm)

#7 Who is the Lombardo you refer to who translated the Aeneid, the Iliad and the odyssey?

DoctorRobert in Recommend Site Improvements : Date versus Copyright (Apr 26, 2007, 1:43pm)

... latest work for anthologies. I'm also frustrated that the website treats numbers as characters. Books written BCE (e.g., The Aeneid, which I've given the date -0019) don't get factored into the average date figure in "fun statistics" and don't appear in the correct order when I sort my ...

ArmyAngel1986 in Book talk : Memorable First Sentences (Apr 25, 2007, 6:04pm)

"I sing of warfare and a man at war." -the Aeneid My favorite opening line.

madmaudlin in Folio Society devotees : Leather bindings (Apr 20, 2007, 3:25pm)

... touch, and leaves spots of colour on the fingers, as well as inside the slipcase. My other volumes from this series, the Aeneid and The Iliad, are fine. Has anyone else experienced this sticky-leather problem? Is it a production defect, the result of poor storage..? And most importantly, ...

-Mr-Dustin- in The Literati : So, what are you currently reading? (Apr 18, 2007, 5:36pm)

I decided to save The Aeneid untill I have read The Iliad and will instead read Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid. Currently on page:

... FrancesS in Recommend Site Improvements : Cover View (Apr 13, 2007, 1:32pm) ... fool because no matter what i do in list view, all i get is my books that begin with A - Abduction, An Acceptable Time, The Aeneid Existanai in poetry in translation : good, better , best and terrible translations and translators/editions (Apr 8, 2007, 3:07pm) ... but I love his translations - Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays, Homer's epics and most recently Virgil's Aeneid (haven't finished the latter translation yet) - they all have a fluidity, pace and idiom which is enjoyable and modern, mostly free of 'literary' baggage, and ... -Mr-Dustin- in The Literati : So, what are you currently reading? (Apr 5, 2007, 12:01am) ... I shall hopefully finish Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps & Hamlet, as well as start/finish Virgil's The Aeneid. I did finish Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps on the flight over to Frankfurt and finished almost all of Hamlet on the flight back, ... LA2 in Swedish Thing : Pocketböckerna du måste köpa (Mar 23, 2007, 7:11pm) ... juvelsmycke 25. Albert Camus - Främlingen 26. Franz Kafka - Slottet 27. Vergilius (Virgil) - Aeneiden 28. Stig Dagerman - Bränt barn 29. Witold Gombrowicz - Ferdydurke 30. Ann-Marie Ljungberg - Resan ... Tasozel in The Green Dragon : Please share us a few lines from something you are currently reading. (Mar 18, 2007, 4:43am) ... gloated over in the upper world--foolishly, for they have only delayed the day of atonement till after death" Virgil's Aeneid myshelves in Quotes and sources : Name the source (Mar 3, 2007, 12:30am) Adding touchstones: Ernest Dowson, The Aeneid 3 & 4 are still in play. 4 has me stumped. jaw in Book talk : Christmas presents? (Dec 30, 2006, 3:22pm) Received the following (including two I chose with vouchers): Nul Points, Tanglewreck, The Aeneid translated by Robert Fagles - actually my wife's, but it certainly looks to be a good verse translation and I'm going to read it after she finishes with it, The Book Of Origins - The First O ... DoctorRobert in Ancient History : Ancient History Message Board (Nov 30, 2006, 3:00am) With the release of Robert Fagles' translation of The Aeneid, I am reminded of how much I enjoy his translations of Homer. His Iliad reads like a Shakespearean tragedy. trochaic in Recommend Site Improvements : swap "give" should give the ISBN I actually own (Nov 19, 2006, 1:11am) ... I checked to ensure that it wasn't just the Strunk and White that had that problem . I also had a problem with Virgil's The Aeneid of Virgil, where the version offered via bookmooch is not the same -- not even different editions, since its translator is different. (I have the Mandelbaum ... BoPeep in Combiners! : Translations (Aug 4, 2006, 7:38am) ... by a tourist who speaks either language (this is my acid test, basically). I don't consider Harry Potter in Latin, The Aeneid in the original, or The Bible in Aramaic to be combinable with English versions. I am aware that Harry Potter is a bit sore-thumbish there, but it's because ... gabriel in Combiners! : Combiners! Message Board (Aug 2, 2006, 4:04pm) ... the version under the editor's name, and about an equal number without an author. A similar problem is found with The Aeneid where there exist scads of copies under various translators. alibrarian in Combiners! : Griping- To Share Discoveries of Idiocy (Aug 2, 2006, 1:55pm) Okay. I just looked at Homer. Somehow he is the author of the Aeneid by Virgil (112 books in two works). Even more amazing, Homer survived long enough to go on to write Architecture and Design Library: Italian Country in 2002. I think someone combined Robert Fitzgerald with Homer. ... Buy, borrow or swap Abebooks Alibris Amazon.com (top edition) Barnes & Noble BookFinder.com IndieBound WorldCat Swap this book (141/113) Member Giveaway: Give this away Popular covers (see all 294 covers)   Help/FAQs | About | Privacy/Terms | Blog | Contact | LibraryThing.com | APIs | WikiThing | Common Knowledge | 45,565,702 books! Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /