The Works of Virgil – John Dryden (1906)

S$65.00

The Works of Virgil – John Dryden (1906)

S$65.00

John Dryden’s translation of Virgil, in a compact little edition.

Title: The Works of Virgil

Author: Virgil, John Dryden (trans.)

Publisher: Henry Frowde, Oxford, 1906. Part of The World’s Classics series.

Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth. Pocket size edition on thin paper. Blank ffep missing, otherwise is very good condition with only slight rubbing to cover. Slight foxing. 486pp.

Containing:

The Aeneid
Georgics
Pastorals

About Virgil (from Wikipedia):

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. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, are sometimes attributed to him.

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.