more » ts thrust into a rhetoric of sweeping, seemingly endless sentences full of difficult verb forms and obscure words, Virgil's Aeneid finds a helpful translator in Robert Fitzgerald, who turns the lines into beautiful, accessible American English. The Aeneid (Vintage Classics) ( Reprint Edition) by (Translator) Robert Fitzgerald Virgil, Luann Walther (Editor), Robert (Trn) Virgil/ Fitzgerald, Publius Vergilius Maro, Virgil Anderson -., Robert (Translated By) Fitzgerald Paperback, 442 Pages, Published 1990 Prime B&N Member Books A Million Club eCampus Member Indigo.ca iRewards Fye.com Member Filters: Hide All Used Hide Unspecified Hide Acceptable Hide Good Hide Very Good Hide Like New Hide Rentals Hide Digital Hide Variants Hide Backorders Store Languages: « Less Settings Hardcover (December 19th, 2010): $33.Discounts: Include Coupons Include Offers member of.It is said that the poet had instructed his executor Varius to destroy The Aeneid, but Augustus ordered Varius to ignore this request, and the poem was published. The poet died in 19 B.C of a fever he contracted on his visit to Greece with the Emperor. Virgil devoted the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 B.C., to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and to glory of the Empire. Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Ecologues, and spent years on the Georgics.At the urging of Augustus Caesar, Virgil began to write The Aeneid, a poem of the glory of Rome under Caesars rule. He attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples.

Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy.

Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 B.C.

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