The Aeneid
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The Aeneid

Vergil, Sarah Ruden

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The Aeneid

Vergil, Sarah Ruden

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This extraordinary new translation of Vergil's Aeneid stands alone among modern translations for its accuracy and poetic appeal. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet in her own right, renders the classic poem in the same number of lines as the original work—a very rare feat that maintains technical fidelity to the original without diminishing its emotional power.

Ruden’s translation follows Vergil’s content faithfully, and the economy and fast pace she achieves are true to his own unflagging narrative force. With its central theme of national destiny versus. the destiny of individuals, the poem has great resonance in our own times, and Ruden adheres closely to the poet’s message. Her rendering of Vergil’s words gives immediacy to his struggling faith that history has beauty and purpose in spite of its pain. With this distinguished translation, modern readers can experience for themselves the timeless power of Vergil's masterpiece.

Sarah Ruden’s previous translations include Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and Petronius' Satyricon. She is a visiting scholar at Yale Divinity School.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780300148299
Edition
1
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire
nations 
may 
also 
represent 
a 
basic 
drive—and 
in 
one 
way 
a 
more
painful 
one. 
We 
have 
chances 
to 
get 
land, 
livelihood, 
and 
security 
for
the 
next 
generation, 
pretty 
much 
in 
the 
forms 
we 
imagined 
or 
even
better, 
though 
the 
cost 
will 
be 
high. 
We 
cannot 
match 
in 
reality 
our 
vision 
of 
what 
we 
need 
to 
create 
from 
our 
minds. 
Vergil 
couldn’t, 
and
I 
certainly 
couldn’t 
in 
my 
efforts 
to 
translate 
his 
glorious 
poem.
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