{"product_id":"the-aeneid-of-virgil-paperback","title":"The Aeneid of Virgil - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVirgil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAllen Mandelbaum\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for all the time and all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's \"Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. \"The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout his life Virgil was a poet and as far as we know had no interest in pursuing any other career. He was born Publius Vergilius Maro in 70 BC near Mantua, in what now is northern Italy. His parents, farm owners, were people of property and substance, if not wealth, and were able to obtain for their son a first-rate education. On completing his education, he returned home and possibly began work on the Eclogues, which appeared between the years of 42 and 37 BC. In 41 BC, the Emperor Octavian (later known as Augustus) confiscated Virgil's family's property, and Virgil was obliged to travel to Rome to negotiate for its return. Fortunately for Virgil, one of the officials secured for him an introduction to the emperor; not only was his land returned, but he also met Octavian's confidant Maecenas, who became Virgil's patron for the rest of his life. An industrious, meticulous writer, Virgil was not prolific. In addition to the ten Eclogues, which apparently took at least five years to publish, Virgil wrote the four \u003cb\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/b\u003e, which took seven years, and the \u003cb\u003eAeneid\u003c\/b\u003e, his great masterwork. Virgil worked on the \u003cb\u003eAeneid\u003c\/b\u003e for eleven years, until his death in 19 BC. Feeling, apparently, that the epic was still unfinished, he directed in his will that the manuscript be destroyed. To the great fortune of succeeding generations, the emperor, Virgil's most prominent friend and admirer, intervened to countermand this provision. He turned the manuscript over to two of Virgil's friends, Varius and Tucca, to edit only obvious errors and repetitions, without adding to the text. The result of their work is the beautiful and brilliant \u003cb\u003eAeneid\u003c\/b\u003e we have today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllen Mendelbaum's\u003c\/b\u003e five verse volumes are: \u003ci\u003eChelmaxions\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Savantasse of Montparnasse\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJourneyman\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLeaves of Absence\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA Lied of Letterpress\u003c\/i\u003e. His volumes of verse translation include \u003ci\u003eThe Aeneid of Virgil\u003c\/i\u003e, a University of California Press volume (now available from Bantam) for which he won a National Book Award; the \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eParadiso\u003c\/i\u003e volumes of the California Dante (now available from Bantam); \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey of Homer\u003c\/i\u003e (now available from Bantam); \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphoses of Ovid\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry; \u003ci\u003eOvid in Sicily\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSelected Writings of Salvatore Quasimodo\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDavid Maria Turoldo\u003c\/i\u003e. Mandelbaum is co-editor with Robert Richardson Jr. of \u003ci\u003eThree Centuries of American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Bantam Books) and, with Yehuda Amichai, of the eight volumes of the JPS Jewish Poetry Series. After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia, he was in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. While chairman of the Ph.D. program in English at the Graduate Center of CUNY, he was a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and at the universities of Houston, Denver, Colorado, and Purdue. His honorary degrees are from Notre Dame University, Purdue University, the University of Assino, and the University of Torino. He received the Gold Medal of Honor from the city of Florence in 2000, celebrating the 735th anniversary of Dante's birth, the only translator to be so honored; and in 2003 he received the President of Italy's award for translation. He is now Professor of the History of Literary Criticism at the University of Turin and the W.R. Kenan Professor of Humanities at Wake Forest University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 6.98 x 4.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44302898593894,"sku":"9780553210415","price":14.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/VmFIcjhnMWhxYnhhYWN3R3VuTHdrQT09.webp?v=1767513337","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-aeneid-of-virgil-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}