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.
今天最终读完了厚厚一本Aeneid 也是欧洲文学课中《埃涅阿斯纪》部分的final quiz.. 奋战了一周、努力地读史诗,读的昏天黑地觉得绝望,但最后还是不知不觉地就读到了结尾: "Then all the body slackened in death's chill, And with a groan for that indignity His spirit fl...
评分Norwegian Wood 他的长矛——那挪威山上采伐来 可做巨型旗舰樯桅的巨松 比起来就只是一根细枝短棍—— 金发燊译弥尔顿《失乐园》第一卷,第292—294行 《失乐园》广西师范大学出版社,上册,第15—16页 有趣的是弥尔顿描写的是被上帝逐出天堂的撒旦,他的长矛“用来支撑蹒跚...
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 评分他的长矛——那挪威山上采伐来 可做巨型旗舰樯桅的巨松 比起来就只是一根细枝短棍—— ——金发燊译弥尔顿《失乐园》第一卷,第292-294行(《失乐园》,广西师范大学出版社,上册第15-16页) 有趣的是弥尔顿描写的是被上帝逐出天堂的撒旦,他的长矛“用来支撑蹒跚的步履”,...
没想到那么好看。
评分从冬天看到夏天,终于啃完了!
评分余第10,11章没看。构思规整语言精妙,读过之后觉得Lattimore译本的荷马才是真爱。
评分余第10,11章没看。构思规整语言精妙,读过之后觉得Lattimore译本的荷马才是真爱。
评分隐忍 服从 清楚内心的目标 责任。英雄的楷模。
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