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This volume represents the most ambitious project of distinguished poet David Ferry’s life: a complete translation of Virgil’s Aeneid. Ferry has long been known as the foremost contemporary translator of Latin poetry, and his translations of Virgil’s Eclogues and Georgics have become standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius, rendering Virgil’s formal, metrical lines into an English that is familiar, all while surrendering none of the poem’s original feel of the ancient world. In Ferry’s hands, the Aeneid becomes once more a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, devotion and death.

The paperback and e-book editions include a new introduction by Richard F. Thomas, along with a new glossary of names that makes the book even more accessible for students and for general readers coming to the Aeneid for the first time who may need help acclimating to Virgil’s world.

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University of Chicago Press
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29 September 2017
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"Ferry's version gains by its simplicity of language. . . . In Ferry's version, there’s a notable balance of an eloquent sensibility and a narrative simplicity--both of which Virgil’s epic demands, often simultaneously."
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Publius Vergilius Maro, called Virgil in English, was a Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three poems central to Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. Even in Virgil's lifetime he was considered one of Rome's greatest poets. According to tradition, Virgil died in the harbor at Brundisium on September 21, 19 BC. Augustus ordered Virgil's literary executors to disregard Virgil's wish that the manuscript of the Aeneid be burned, instead ordering it published with few editorial changes.

Richard F. Thomas is the George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074L24TL5
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press (29 September 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1647 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 465 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0226817288

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Publius Vergilius Maro (Classical Latin: [ˈpuː.blɪ.ʊs wɛrˈɡɪ.lɪ.ʊs ˈma.roː]; October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil /ˈvɜːrdʒᵻl/ in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He is known for three major works of 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 from the time of its composition to the present day. Modeled after Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the Trojan refugee Aeneas as he struggles to fulfill his destiny and arrive on the shores of Italy—in Roman mythology the founding act 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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Bill Words

Readable and stylish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2020

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Ferry’s Aeneid has been an enjoyable, clear, elegant translation to read. He’s worked well varying the pentameter he’s chosen, moving between smooth end-stopped lines and pacier enjambed sections when the poem starts moving again.

A couple of other reviewers have mentioned some clumsy passages/habits: these certainly exist – his biggest fault is repeating the same uninteresting word within a handful of lines, or even within the same line – but I think it’s a minor quibble.

The translation is much more readable than, for example, the Fagles one, and despite its extensive anglicization it’s actually remarkably faithful to Virgil’s Latin overall.

Mr Garry J Martin

Two thousand year old story that is alarmingly relevant in 2020.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2020

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This translation is fluent and suggests the original poetic style of Virgil. So much more engaging than a prose version. Its content cannot avoid depicting mankind and its gods as distressingly destructive and we seem to have learnt nothing in the intervening millennia.

Matt Nichols

A great version of a classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2020

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A great version of the classic with vivid language and prose

Philip Smith

Fitzgerald is superior.

Reviewed in Canada on 22 September 2019

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Ferry's translation of The Aeneid is an easy read, thanks to his use of modern English and apparent preference for clarity over beauty or elegance. There are some nicely turned lines here and there; flashes of poetic beauty, if you will. Moreover, his writing flows nicely when he's on point. Unfortunately, however, some of his writing is cumbersome and unappealing, do to an occasional use of very odd and awkward sentence structure. It's jarring and taints an otherwise clean and clear presentation.
Fitzgerald's translation is for the most part more refined and elegant than Ferry's; more poetic. His writing has a special beauty and is appealing to the ear. Perhaps most importantly, Fitzgerald's Aeneid has an antiquated charm that Ferry's certainly lacks and unlike other translators before him, he achieves this without using flowery or grandiloquent English.
Ferry has given us a simpler translation and for some, that may just be what's needed to attract and maintain their interest. That in itself is quite valuable for posterity, so we must thank Ferry for that. If, however, your reading level is up to the minor task, and you relish attention to detail and the sound of English poetry writing well, do yourself a favor and get the Fitzgerald.

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Paulo Leite

Virgílio através de olhos modernos

Reviewed in Brazil on 28 December 2017

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Nossa época é adequada para ler as traduções de clássicos. Temos atualmente cinco boas versões de “Eneida”, de Virgílio, e todas elas em inglês. Extravagantemente comprei todas, mas qual eu recomendaria se forçado a escolher uma?

Elas são, por sua vez, a clássica de Robert Fagles (versão elogiada em todo o mundo), de Fitzgerald e de Mandelbaum; e as recentes de Sarah Ruden e de David Ferry. O que realmente interessa é ler pelo menos uma das versões. Contudo, quero salientar o perfeccionismo literário de Ferry, que já havia traduzido Horácio (melhor versão em inglês) e a poesia pastoral de Virgílio.

Ler hoje “A Eneida”, muitas vezes parece contemporâneo. Considere sua premissa básica: um grupo de exilados foge de uma cidade devastada e em chamas, na Ásia Menor, e vão em busca desesperada por uma nova pátria. Em vez de bem-vindos, eles encontram desconfiança e ódio. Nesta Luz, o poema torna-se um conto de resistência humana, de esperança contra a esperança, bem como um lembrete da fragilidade da civilização e da necessidade primordial de compaixão, perdão e reconciliação. Ferry enfatiza essa interpretação em seu prefácio onde ele cita uma passagem do livro 11:

Aurora rose, spreading her pitying light
And with it bringing back to sight the labors
Of sad mortality, what men have done,
And what has been done to them; and what they must do
To mourn.

Isso é lindamente dito, e, no entanto, é apenas uma abordagem possível para essas linhas. Compare agora com a versão de Sarah Ruden:

Meanwhile, Dawn raised her nurturing light and summoned
Wretched mankind back to its work and hardship.

A versão de Ferry parece mais "poética" e mais expressiva. Como Fitzgerald interpreta o latim? Ou Fagles ou Ruden? Penso que, para um clássico tão rico e tão inesgotável como "The Aeneid", nenhuma tradução única, por mais legal que seja, poderá ser suficiente.

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