The Loeb Classical Library: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

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The Loeb Classical Library: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly

and naval matters

He became famous in rhetoric

Shackleton Bailey’s pleasing and authoritative translation

The introduction deals with Euripides’ adaptation of the myth of Ion

and the Metamorphoses

every bit of every scene counts towards the dramatic effect

both sadly lost

as well as lucid and insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text

promoting the understanding of English as well as Latin

2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe

This edition is aimed primarily at students at university and in the upper forms of schools

Subsequent chapters deal with the traditions of oral poetry