Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1-6


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Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1-6

副标题: Virgil Volume I

ISBN: 9780674995833

出版社: Harvard University Press

出版年: January 1916

页数: 608

定价: $24.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介


Loeb Classical Library 63

作者简介


Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BCE near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial bucolic poems, the Eclogues, which imitated freely Theocritus’s idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BCE came one of the best of all didactic works, the four hooks of Georgics on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil’s remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the Aeneid, on the traditional theme of Rome’s origins through Aeneas of Troy. Inspired by the Emperor Augustus’s rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature, philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19 BCE at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to round off the Aeneid. He had left in Rome a request that all its twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were published by the executors of his will.

目录


Preface
Introduction
Eclogues
Georgics
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Aeneid
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI