Virgil, In two volumes / Loeb Classical Library

Loeb Classical Library 63/64, Virgil, Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid, Vergiliana Appendix. In two volumes. Translated by H. A. Fairclough. Revised edition.

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    Condition : good, vol. 1 slightly browned, some annotations, vol. 2 very good condition.
    Volumes : 2 volumes.
    Binding : vol. 1 half leather, vol. 2 hardback with dust jacket.
    Format : In-16.
    Pages : XVI, 593, 10; 3 ff, 590 pp, 1 f.
    Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press / London, Heinemann.
    Date : 1950 and 2000.
    Language : Bilingual Latin and English.

     

    Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 B.C. near Mantua and was educated in Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in spirit, weak in health, he returned north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the dubious poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his extant works are written in his perfect hexameters.

    The earliest is the collection of ten pleasantly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which loosely imitate the idylls of Theocritus. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BC, Virgil published one of the best didactic works, the four books of the Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle and bees.

    Virgil's last years were spent composing his great, but not fully completed, epic, the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome's origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the reign of the emperor Augustus, the poem is Homeric in its metre and method, but it is also influenced by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy and learning, and is deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BC in Brundisium on his way back from Greece, where he intended to complete the Aeneid. He had left a request in Rome that his twelve books be destroyed if he died at that time, but they were published by the executors of his will.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.

     


    The Loeb Classical Library® is the only series of books in existence that, through the original text and English translation, provides access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and comedy, history, travel, philosophy and oratory, the great medical writers and mathematicians, the church fathers who made special use of pagan culture - in short, our entire classical heritage is represented here in convenient, well-printed paperback volumes, in which an up-to-date text and an accurate, cultured English translation face each other page by page. The editors provide substantial introductions as well as essential critical and explanatory notes and selective bibliographies.

     

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Condition Used - Good
Language United Kingdom
Illustrated No
Publicaton Date Jan 1, 1986
Year 1950
Author / Cartographer / Photographer Virgil
Editor Harvard University Press
First edition No
Signed edition No
Signed binding No
Armorial binding No
Binding / Format Hardcover
Size 17 x 12 cm
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