In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North
Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that
will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set
against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome. Edited by Keith
Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's
students, by setting it in its literary and historical context and
taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches
to Virgil. The edition includes a full introduction which covers
Virgil's life and writings, his literary predecessors, a summary of
the epic poem's plot, an exploration of Rome, Carthage and Dido's
role, explanation of the metre, and some notes on translating and
reading the poem. As well as the introduction, the volume contains the
original Latin text, in-depth annotation to explain language and
content, a glossary and a comprehensive vocabulary list.
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ISBN
9781472502834
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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