The Aeneid Of Virgil: A Verse Translation By Rolfe Humphries (Scribner/Macmillan Bk)

The Story

Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's 'Aeneid' is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. 'The Aeneid' is a book for all the time and all people.'Allen Mandelbaum has produced a living 'Aeneid,' a version that is unmistakably poetry.' -- Erich Segal, 'The New York Times Book Review' 'A brilliant translation; the only one since Dryden which reads like English verse and conveys some of the majesty and pathos of the original.' -- Bernard M. W. Knox'Mandelbaum has... given us a contemporary experience of the masterpiece, at last.' -- David Ignatow