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Book Jacket Status JacketedIn dramatic and narrative power Virgils Aeneid is the equal of its greatHomeric predecessors The Iliad and The Odyssey. It surpasses themhowever in the intense sympathy it displays for its human actorsa sympathythat makes events such as Aeneass escape from Troy and search for a newhomeland the passion and the death of Dido the defeat of Turnus and thefounding of Rome among the most memorable in literature.This celebrated translation by Robert Fitzgerald does full justice to thespeed clarity and stately grandeur of the Roman Empires most magnificentliterary work of art. «
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