Aeneid VII-XII [Elektronisk resurs] Appendix Vergiliana / Virgil ; with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough ; revised by G. P. Goold.

• 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 books 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. 

Ämnesord

Trojanska kriget  (sao)

Didactic poetry, Latin  -- Translations into English. (LCSH)

Country life  -- Poetry. (LCSH)

Agriculture  -- Poetry. (LCSH)

Epic poetry, Latin  -- Translations into English (bnb)

Aeneas (Legendary character)  -- Poetry (bnb)

Legends  -- Rome -- Poetry (bnb)

Pastoral poetry, Latin  -- Translations into English (bnb)

Trojan War  (LCSH)

Genre

Poesi  (saogf)

Verk före 1800  (saogf)

Personnamn

Aeneas (mytisk gestalt)

Virgil -- Translations into English

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Hoc.03 Latinsk litteratur: poesi

Hoc.03=e Latinsk litteratur: poesi: översättningar till: engelska

Klassifikation

873.01 (DDC)

Hoc.03 (kssb/8)

Hoc.03=e (kssb/8)