''The Aeneid,'' left all but completed at Virgil's death in 19 BC, might seem a strange choice, for it has long been out of favor with modern readers, perhaps ever since scholar Edith Hamilton drew a distinction between the stylistic purity and narrative economy of the ''classical'' epic (Homer's) and the exaggerated rhetoric and loose sweep of the ''romantic'' (Virgil's). Well known for his vigorous and plainspoken English verse versions of Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey,'' poet Robert Fitzgerald now becomes the first writer to have translated all three major epics of ancient Greece and Rome. Hardcover (December 19th, 2010): $33.The Aeneid, by Virgil.
It is said that the poet had instructed his executor Varius to destroy The Aeneid, but Augustus ordered Varius to ignore this request, and the poem was published. The poet died in 19 B.C of a fever he contracted on his visit to Greece with the Emperor. Virgil devoted the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 B.C., to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and to glory of the Empire. Virgil composed pastoral poems known as Ecologues, and spent years on the Georgics.At the urging of Augustus Caesar, Virgil began to write The Aeneid, a poem of the glory of Rome under Caesars rule. He attended school at Cremona and Milan, and then went to Rome, where he studied mathematics, medicine and rhetoric, and completed his studies in Naples. Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 B.C.
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