{"product_id":"9780674995864-aeneid","title":"Aeneid, Books 7–12. Appendix Vergiliana","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVirgil (70–19 BC) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e deal with bucolic life and love, his \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic on the theme of Rome’s origins. Poems of the \u003ci\u003eAppendix Vergiliana\u003c\/i\u003e are traditionally, but in most cases wrongly, attributed to Virgil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“The classic of all Europe.” —T. S. Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70  BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in  speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back  north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may  have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian  manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect  hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly artificial  bucolic poems, the \u003ci\u003eEclogues\u003c\/i\u003e, which imitated freely Theocritus’  idylls. They deal with pastoral life and love. Before 29 BC came one of  the best of all didactic works, the four books of \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e on tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. Virgil’s remaining years were spent in composing his great, not wholly finished, epic the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e,  on the traditional theme of Rome’s origins through Aeneas of Troy.  Inspired by the Emperor Augustus’ rule, the poem is Homeric in metre and  method but influenced also by later Greek and Roman literature,  philosophy, and learning, and deeply Roman in spirit. Virgil died in 19  BC at Brundisium on his way home from Greece, where he had intended to  round off the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e. He had left in Rome a request that all its  twelve books should be destroyed if he were to die then, but they were  published by the executors of his will. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of Virgil is in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31582919622753,"sku":"9780674995864","price":27.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41276261.jpg?v=1779212794","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674995864-aeneid","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}