LoginVirgil, II, Aeneid: Books 7-12, Appendix Vergiliana (Loeb Classical Library)
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he vent back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which imitated freely Theocritus's idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, th
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 15 February 2001
ISBN-10 : 0674995864 | ISBN-13: 9780674995864
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