Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.
Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fagles has been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Review
“A new and noble standard bearer . . . There’s a capriciousness to Fagles’s line well suited to this vast story’s ebb and flow.”
—The New York Times Book Review (front page review)
“Fagles’s new version of Virgil’s epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem’s Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil’s distinctive voice.”
—The New Yorker
“Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil’s drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid.”
—J. M. Coetzee
Book Description
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
With his translations of Homer’s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.
爱情。 一开始并没有爱情。是神的恩典或者不怀好意的捉弄----神秘的爱火吹进心里,居心叵测的维纳斯与丘比特暗暗令她不知不觉地中毒。一箭穿心。一箭穿心带来的痛楚……及痛到极致之时酣畅淋漓的快感。痛楚,与快感。爱情所赠与我们的,无外乎这两种。酣畅淋漓注定是短暂的,易...
评分 评分几千年前的文字,又经过两次翻译,还能让人津津有点味的读下去,也就不抱怨那么多啦。这书应该小时候看呀,那些翅膀啊,海浪啊,蟒蛇啊,神们散发玫瑰光泽的脖子啊,丰富一下想象力还是不错的。最好是那种带着插图的版本,插图当然要油画风格的。 这本古代故事书里基本有两种...
评分一、 人物关系 从人物关系图,可以看出这些内容。 埃涅阿斯是维纳斯的儿子,是神之子。普里阿姆斯是特洛亚(罗马神话称特洛亚,希腊神话为特洛伊)的国王,那么同时,埃涅阿斯还是国王的女婿。所以,由这双重身份,埃涅阿斯承担起带领人民逃离特洛亚、到罗马建立新的国家的使命...
评分Library Genesis上只有Fredrick Ahl的译本
评分没想到那么好看。
评分只对爱情部分感兴趣,剩下部分总觉得和奥德赛太像了就乱翻翻过去了…我承认是我没好好看…
评分Aeneas eventually emerged as a deeply tragic character who has to repeatedly surrender his own will to found a Rome for others
评分time to reread
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