Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1
Introduction, Books I - VIII
Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and published in print forty years later. His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text and of its major commentators, together with a sensitiv…
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Weitere Autoren: Kendal, Gordon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-947623-96-8
- EAN: 9780947623968
- Produktnummer: 11780148
- Verlag: Modern Humanities Research Association
- Sprache: Schottisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 458 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.4 cm 690 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 690
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Publius Vergilius Maro (15 October 70 BC - 21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues (or Bucolics), the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Virgil is traditionally ranked as one of Rome's greatest poets. His Aeneid has been considered the national epic of ancient Rome since the time of its composition. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and reach Italy, where his descendants Romulus and Remus were to found the city of Rome. Virgil's work has had wide and deep influence on Western literature, most notably Dante's Divine Comedy, in which Virgil appears as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory.
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