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Free Download Alison Keith, "Vergil and Elegy "
English | ISBN: 1487547951 | 2023 | 516 pages | EPUB | 1346 KB
Born in 70 BCE, the Roman poet Vergil came of age during a period of literary experimentalism among Latin authors. These authors introduced new Greek verse forms and metres into the existing repertoire of Latin poetic genres and measures, foremost among them being elegy, a genre that the ancients thought originated in funeral lament, but which in classical Rome became first-person poetry about the poet-lover’s amatory vicissitudes. Despite the influence of notable elegists on Vergil’s early poetry, his critics have rarely paid attention to his engagement with the genre across his body of work.

Free Download Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet’s Life "
English | ISBN: 0300256612 | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 8 MB
A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid

Free Download Vergil: Aeneid 10: With Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by Virgil, S. J. Harrison
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0198149190 | 344 Pages | PDF | 9.9 MB
The tenth book of Vergil’s Aeneid contains some of the poem’s most dramatic war narrative and yet has been unjustly neglected by Vergilian scholars.

Free Download Vergil: The Poets Life (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CDJQ2GX1 | 2023 | 7 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Sarah Ruden
Narrator: Suzanne Toren
A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid. The Aeneid stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creating this epic poem, Vergil (70-19 BCE) became the world’s first media celebrity, a living legend. But the real Vergil is a shadowy figure; we know that he was born into a modest rural family, that he led a private and solitary life, and that, in spite of poor health and unusual emotional vulnerabilities, he worked tirelessly to achieve exquisite new effects in verse. Vergil’s most famous work, the Aeneid, was commissioned by the emperor Augustus, who published the epic despite Vergil’s dying wish that it be destroyed. Sarah Ruden, widely praised for her translation of the Aeneid, uses evidence from Roman life and history alongside Vergil’s own writings to make careful deductions to reconstruct his life. Through her intimate knowledge of Vergil’s work, she brings to life a poet who was committed to creating something astonishingly new and memorable, even at great personal cost.