Virgil's Aeneid (Penguin Classics)
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The famed translation by the greatest literary figure of Restoration England
Virgil's epic vividly recounts Aeneas's tortuous journey after the Trojan War and the struggles he faced as he lay the foundations for the greatest continental empire. Rendered into a vigorous and refined English by the most important man of letters of the seventeenth century, this translation of the Aeneid "set a new, august standard so influential as to be epochal." For his version, John Dryden drew on the deep understanding of political unrest he had acquired during the Civil Wars of 1642-51 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 1 October 1997
ISBN-10 : 0140446273 | ISBN-13: 9780140446272
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Release date: 1 October 1997
ISBN-10 : 0140446273 | ISBN-13: 9780140446272
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