The Virgil Page
( 70 - 19 B.C. )
en Priamus. sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi,
sunt lachrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
Virgil's Works
The Aeneid has been recently translated by Humphries ( Scribner's, 1951 ), Fitzgerald ( Random House, 1990 ), Mandelbaum ( California, 1982 ), and McCrorie ( Michigan, 1995 ), all in verse.
The Eclogues, translated by Guy Lee, and the Georgics, by L.P. Wilkinson are both Penguin Classics.
The Aeneid
On Line trans. John Dryden.
The Eclogues
On Line.
The Georgics
On Line
About Virgil
W. A. Camps, An Introduction to Virgil's Aeneid. Oxford, 1979.
A Virgil Study Guide . Written by Dr Diane Thompson. Good introduction to plot, characters, and themes in The Aeneid.
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