Virgil
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Virgil
The Aeneid
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.
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Virgil
Philip Hardie
Virgil: Aeneid Book IX
Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic.
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Virgil
R. Mynors
Georgics
Virgil's Georgics, by common consent one of the greatest poems in western literature, purports to be a didactic poem on agriculture, but its true subject is man and his place in literature and society.
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Virgil
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land
'Georgic' means 'to work the earth'. This poetic guide to country living combines practical wisdom on tending the land with fantasy and eulogies to the rhythms of nature.
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