Virgil, Virgil Virgil

Broschiertes Buch

Virgil

Aeneid Book VIII

Herausgeber: Gransden, K. W.

Beschreibung

This is primarily a textbook for university students and sixth-formers, but it also contains material which may be of interest to students of English and comparative literature.

Autor

Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that The Aeneid was unfinished and expressed a desire to have it burned, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil's other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also considered masterpieces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 261g
• ISBN-13: 9780521290470
• ISBN-10: 0521290473
• Artikelnr.: 21739442