Description
Product ID: | 9780141996332 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Penguin Clothbound Classics |
Title: | The Aeneid |
Authors: | Author: Virgil, David West |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Classical texts, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-SmithVirgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem that sits at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race. In telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering, in its physicality and its mystery. Virgil''s masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-11-05 |