The essential Aeneid / Virgil ; translated and edited by Stanley Lombardo ; introduction by W.R. Johnson.

By:

Virgil

Contributor(s):

Lombardo, Stanley, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Publication details: Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., �2006.Description: xxxii, 212 pages : map ; 22 cmISBN:

0872207919
9780872207912
0872207900
9780872207905

Uniform titles:

Aeneis. Selections. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PA6807.A5 L583 2006

Summary: Stanley Lombardo (classics, U. of Kansas) translated the famous Latin epic in 2005, and here offers an abridgments of that translation (which was also published by Hacket Publishing Co.) with summaries of the sections omitted. The blank-verse English is in readable vernacular, without archaisms. A glossary of names with pronunciation guides is provided and a list of further reading, but no notes or index. A trimmed down version of W.R. Johnson's (classics and comparative literature, U. of Chicago) is also included.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Reserve Materials	John Brown University Library	Reserve	PA6807 .A5 L583 2006	Available		39524100455835	Integrated Humanities 1

Abridged edition of Lombardo's translation of the Aeneid, published in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-212).

Stanley Lombardo (classics, U. of Kansas) translated the famous Latin epic in 2005, and here offers an abridgments of that translation (which was also published by Hacket Publishing Co.) with summaries of the sections omitted. The blank-verse English is in readable vernacular, without archaisms. A glossary of names with pronunciation guides is provided and a list of further reading, but no notes or index. A trimmed down version of W.R. Johnson's (classics and comparative literature, U. of Chicago) is also included.