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    Virgil & Lucretius: Passages translated by William Stebbing
    Virgil & Lucretius: Passages translated by William Stebbing
    Virgil & Lucretius: Passages translated by William Stebbing
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    Virgil & Lucretius: Passages translated by William Stebbing

    By Virgil and Titus Lucretius Carus

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    This is a collection of poetry by two of the most famous Roman poets. There are twelve poems by Virgil and ten poems by Lucretius. They have been translated by William Stebbing, a classical scholar from Oxford.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateJan 17, 2022
    ISBN4066338108081
    Virgil & Lucretius: Passages translated by William Stebbing
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    Virgil

    Virgil (70 BC-19 BC) was a Roman poet. He was born near Mantua in northern Italy. Educated in rhetoric, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy, Virgil moved to Rome where he was known as a particularly shy member of Catullus’ literary circle. Suffering from poor health for most of his life, Virgil began his career as a poet while studying Epicureanism in Naples. Around 38 BC, he published the Eclogues, a series of pastoral poems in the style of Hellenistic poet Theocritus. In 29 BC, Virgil published his next work, the Georgics, a long didactic poem on farming in the tradition of Hesiod’s Works and Days. In the last decade of his life, Virgil worked on his masterpiece the Aeneid, an epic poem commissioned by Emperor Augustus. Expanding upon the story of the Trojan War as explored in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Aeneid follows the hero Aeneas from the destruction of Troy to the discovery of the region that would later become Rome. Posthumously considered Rome’s national poet, Virgil’s reputation has grown through the centuries—in large part for his formative influence on Dante’s Divine Comedy—to secure his position as a foundational figure for all of Western literature.

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