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Virgil

Title
Works. English & Latin
Virgil / with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough ; revised by G.P. Goold.
ISBN
9780674995833
9780674995864
Edition
New edition / revised by G.P. Goold.
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
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Notes
Includes index.
Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Virgil (70-19 BCE) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His Aeneid is an epic on the theme of Rome's origins. Poems of the Appendix Vergiliana are traditionally, but in most cases probably wrongly, attributed to Virgil. 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 went 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, the four hooks of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil's remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus's rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the executors of his will. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.
Variant and related titles
Loeb classical library.
Other formats
Print version: Virgil. Works. New ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999
Format
Books / Online
Language
English; Latin
Added to Catalog
January 18, 2018
Series
Loeb classical library ; 63-64.
Loeb Classical Library ; 63-64
Contents
v. I. Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6
v. II. Aeneid: Books 7-12. Appendix Vergiliana.
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