{"product_id":"the-aeneid-9781984854124","title":"The Aeneid","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.\"--Tom Holland, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas's dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas's heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice, the place of love and passion in human life, the relationship between art and violence, the tension between immigrant and indigenous people, and the way new foundations are so often built upon the wreckage of those who came before. Throughout the course of Western history, the Aeneid has affirmed our best and worst intentions and forced us to confront our deepest contradictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShadi Bartsch, Guggenheim Laureate, award-winning translator, and chaired professor at the University of Chicago, confronts the contradictions inherent in the text itself, illuminating the epic's subversive approach to storytelling. Even as Vergil writes the foundation myth for Rome, he seems to comment on this tendency to mythologize our heroes and societies, and to gesture to the stories that get lost in the mythmaking. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBartsch's groundbreaking translation, brilliantly maintaining the brisk pace of Vergil's Latin even as it offers readers a metrical line-by-line translation, provides a literary and historical context to make the \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e resonant for a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShadi Bartsch \u003c\/b\u003eis a Guggenheim Laureate, the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor in Classics at the University of Chicago, winner of a Charles J. Goodwin Award, and the inaugural director of The Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. She has been a professor of classics for nearly three decades, has published twelve books (monographs and edited volumes), and translated three of Seneca's tragedies: \u003ci\u003eThyestes, Medea\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePhaedra\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublius Vergilius Maro\u003c\/b\u003e (70-19 b.c.), known as Vergil, was born near Mantua at the end of the Roman Republic. He was the most famous poet of his age and his \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e gave the Romans a great national epic equal to the Greeks', celebrating their city's origins and the creation of their empire. Vergil is also credited with \u003ci\u003eThe Eclogues\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Georgics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50631778926866,"sku":"9781984854124","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_79a9dd19-f99e-496d-8677-88c16a725694.jpg?v=1732783041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-aeneid-9781984854124","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}