The Aeneid

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: List of Maps and FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsAbout the TranslatorMapsTimeline of Roman History Through AugustusGenealogical ChartIntroductionBook 1: The Shores of AfricaBook 2: The Fall of TroyBook 3: Journey from TroyBook 4: The Death of DidoBook 5: Funeral GamesBook 6: Descent into the UnderworldBook 7: The Seeds of WarBook 8: The Shield of AeneasBook 9: Turnus Besieges the Trojan CampBook 10: The Deaths of Pallas, Lausus, and MezentiusBook 11: The Mourning for Pallas and the Glory of CamillaBook 12: The Death of TurnusBibliographyCreditsIndex/GlossaryReview Quotes:"Powell's translation roves with the lows and highs of Vergil's Latin, matching the poem's emotive and stylistic variations turn for turn. With rich visual illustrations and explanatory notes on nearly every page, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem: in short, a book both good to think with, and good to teach with."--Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University"Powell's translation does more than just allow the Latin-less reader to appreciate the artistry of Vergil; it gives a glimpse into why we are still reading Vergil and why this 'handbook of empire'--with all of the attendant ambiguities and complexities of that phrase--is still relevant today."--Leah Kronenberg, Rutgers UniversityBiographical Note: Barry B. Powell is the Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for thirty-four years. His translations of the Iliad (2013) and the Odyssey )2014) were also published by Oxford University Press. Publisher Marketing: Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references, while the rich visual program lightens the text and educates students in the history of Western art by presenting a single topic as represented over 2,000 years. The Aeneid's first sentence charts the poem's historical plot, taking us in one sweep of seven lines from Homer's Troy to Augustus' Rome. These two layers of time are felt all the way through the poem, from the distant past of Aeneas' heroic and quasi-mythological time, over 1100 years before Vergil, down to the "now" of Augustus' Rome, when Vergil was writing the poem between 30 and 19 BC, a period of ongoing political experimentation. The story of Aeneas--moving from one continent to another, undergoing and enforcing great transformations in the process--transplants contemporary Augustan preoccupations with transition, continuity, and change into the remote time of the poem's action. In the course of the poem we move from the East to the West, from Troy to Italy, as Aeneas moves from being a Trojan towards being something else, a kind of Roman in embryo. The poem's migratory movement, together with its wholescale assimilation of Homer, acts out another great transition, the transition of Greek culture to Italy: just as the people of ancient Italy become the inheritors of Troy, so the people of Vergil's Italy become the inheritors of Greece. The very location of the poem in time is transitional, at the pivot between myth and history: the poem's characters are moving out of the era of Homer into the era of what Vergil would have considered non-fabulous history. In all these ways the Aeneid is a great poem of history, both as lived experience and as something constructed by people responding to the needs of society. Featuring a stellar, up-to-date introduction, on-page notes, embedded illustrations, five maps, a timeline of Roman history, and a genealogical chart, Powell's Aeneid offers a full immersion into the mythological and political workings of the poem. It is a book both good to think with, and good to teach with. Review Citations: Library Journal 03/15/2008 pg. 72 (EAN 9780192832061, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 07/01/2006 pg. 51 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 09/18/2006 pg. 37 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2006 pg. 986 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) - *Starred Review New Yorker (The) 12/04/2006 pg. 95 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) New York Times 12/17/2006 pg. 1 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) New York Review of Books 04/12/2007 pg. 24 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 504 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 861 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 620 (EAN 9780670038039, Hardcover) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 670 (EAN 9780140446272, Paperback) New York Times Book Review 02/24/2008 pg. 28 (EAN 9780140446272, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 670 (EAN 9780679729525, Paperback) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 670 (EAN 9780451622778, Mass Market Paperbound) Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 670 (EAN 9780606030274, Prebound-Other) Contributor Bio:  Powell, Barry B Barry B. Powell is Halls-Bascom Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His previous publications include "Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet "(1991), "A Short Introduction to Classical Myth" (2001), "Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature" (2002), "Classical Myth" (fourth edition, 2004), and "The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society" (with Ian Morris, 2005).