The Aeneid 英文原版 维吉尔：埃涅阿斯纪

基本信息

Series: Penguin Classics

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; Revised ed. edition (April 29, 2003)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0140449329

ISBN-13: 978-0140449327

Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 7.8 inches

Weight: 9.6 ounces 

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内容简介

《埃涅阿斯之书》是维吉尔在公元前29-19年所写的史诗。它讲述了特洛伊沦陷后埃涅阿斯前往意大利的旅程，以及他*终降至罗马的故事。

这部史诗共有9896行12卷。根据故事，它可以分为两部分，每部分六卷。其他人把它分成三部分，每部分四卷。这两部分的原因是荷马的《奥德修斯记》的前半部分，关于埃涅阿斯的流浪;《伊利亚特》之后的下半部分，讲的是埃涅阿斯和图努斯之间的战争。之所以分三部分，是因为第一部分以特洛伊的沦陷和狄多的悲剧为中心;第二部分是过渡，埃涅阿斯到达意大利，建立联盟，准备战争;第三部分是关于战争的。

传说中的埃涅阿斯是特洛伊王子，爱的女神阿芙罗狄蒂的儿子，她出现在荷马的《伊利亚特》中。在此之前，维吉尔与罗马的联系是模糊的，他把特洛伊城的毁灭、埃尼亚斯的逃亡和罗马的建立联系起来，写成了一部有力的罗马史诗，解释了布匿战争，颂扬了罗马的传统精神。

"I sing of arms and of the man"

After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honour the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas – Augustus’ legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also provided Rome with a literature equal to the Greek. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven year journey – to Carthage, falling tragically in love with Queen Dido; then to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae; and finally to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, of love and war, hailed by Tennyson as ‘the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man’.

David West’s acclaimed prose translation is accompanied by his revised introduction and individual prefaces to the twelve books of The Aeneid.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

推荐理由

Review

"Fitzgerald's is so decisively the best modern Aeneid that it is unthinkable that anyone will want to use any other version for a long time to come."--New York Review of Books

"From the beginning to the end of this English poem...the reader will find the same sure control of English rhythms, the same deft phrasing, and an energy which urges the eye onward."--The New Republic

"A rendering that is both marvelously readable and scrupulously faithful.... Fitzgerald has managed, by a sensitive use of faintly archaic vocabulary and a keen ear for sound and rhythm, to suggest the solemnity and the movement of Virgil's poetry as no previous translator has done (including Dryden).... This is a sustained achievement of beauty and power."--Boston Globe

作者简介

About the Author

Virgil, born in 70 B.C., is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid. He earned great favor by portraying Augustus as a descendant of the half-god, half-man Aeneas. Although Virgil swore on his deathbed that The Aeneid was incomplete and unworthy, it has been considered one of the greatest works of Western literature for more than two thousand years.

David West (1926-2013) was a leading classical scholar and a professor at Newcastle University. The Guardian stated that his translation of the Aeneid is "remarkably true to the Latin, and has brought Virgil’s epic to life for a generation of modern English readers." A leading figure in the resurence of interest in the ancient world, he was President of the Classical Association in 1995, and a Vice-President of the Association for Latin Teaching.