A collection, literally a “selection”, of ten poems by Virgil. More scholarly individuals see The Eclogues reverberate in works by Marlowe, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley and Frost to name just a few. To those who approach the poems without such depth to compare, they still possess a charm that seeps...
What can I say that generations haven't said before me? Luckily, I had the aid and comfort of Sonia the Classics Prof to go with my reading. I read it and I listened to it and I read it again. I found the words singularly muscular and so absorbing that I often lost the thread of the text in my absor...
Four stars for being a classic piece full of amazing bad-assedness. But it's not a real review... that'll have to wait for someday when I can re-read it under less pressure.
I had to read this for a class so I've been reading a few pages before bed at night. I've had expereince with The Aeneid before, as I took Latin in high school and translated parts of it then.I found John Dryden's translation very interesting to read. The rhyming couplets make it lyrical and smoot...
It might be because I am a history nerd, more specifically an ancient history nerd, who loves classic literature and epic tales but this is one of my all-time favorite books. I remember it was assigned to me for the project of the year when I was taking a college literature course while I was in hig...
This wasn't the edition I read; mine was in Latin. I had to translate the Eclogues into English for a course. Maybe they would have been better had the class not met at 8 a.m.
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