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.
Robert Fagles is Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the recipient of the 1997 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Fagles has been elected to the Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Review
“A new and noble standard bearer . . . There’s a capriciousness to Fagles’s line well suited to this vast story’s ebb and flow.”
—The New York Times Book Review (front page review)
“Fagles’s new version of Virgil’s epic delicately melds the stately rhythms of the original to a contemporary cadence. . . . He illuminates the poem’s Homeric echoes while remaining faithful to Virgil’s distinctive voice.”
—The New Yorker
“Robert Fagles gives the full range of Virgil’s drama, grandeur, and pathos in vigorous, supple modern English. It is fitting that one of the great translators of The Iliad and The Odyssey in our times should also emerge as a surpassing translator of The Aeneid.”
—J. M. Coetzee
Book Description
From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil’s great epic
With his translations of Homer’s classic poems, Robert Fagles gave new life to seminal works of the Western canon and became one of the preeminent translators of our time. His latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry and myth remains as relevant today as when it was first written.
埃涅阿斯纪,要不是有谷歌输入法的帮助,我还是不能记住这个奇怪的名字。据说这本书讲述的是罗马先祖的历史,我却只记得罗马的开国祖先是关于狼孩什么的。后来读了这部史诗才知道埃涅阿斯比他们还要早很多。西方的史诗,毋宁说史诗(诗经中的某诗)是不怎么好读的,还好翻译的...
評分Norwegian Wood 他的长矛——那挪威山上采伐来 可做巨型旗舰樯桅的巨松 比起来就只是一根细枝短棍—— 金发燊译弥尔顿《失乐园》第一卷,第292—294行 《失乐园》广西师范大学出版社,上册,第15—16页 有趣的是弥尔顿描写的是被上帝逐出天堂的撒旦,他的长矛“用来支撑蹒跚...
評分论讲故事的能力,维吉尔不如荷马,也不如与他同一时代的奥维德。维吉尔笔下的主人公埃涅阿斯,性格平淡得有如一张白纸。维吉尔多次用“诚实的”、“忠实的”一类的词汇来形容埃涅阿斯,意指埃涅阿斯对神灵敬顺有加,对命运毫不违逆。综观全书,埃涅阿斯在他的冒险旅程经历过许...
評分博尔赫斯对维吉尔的赞美勾起了我读《埃涅阿斯纪》的欲望。细看每个句子都是用心的推敲的杰作。精美,工巧。用文学巨擘形容他一点不过分,但习惯于根据作品的历史作用而非美学价值对文学作品加以取舍的做法使其被渐渐忽略。 ——不说古希腊人乘着夜的间隙进入特洛伊城,他说是...
評分戴朵已经倒伏在利剑的吻上。 秋天的火焰,只留下诅咒 灰烬和无尽的虚无。 除了她,还有谁会殉情而亡? 不,她们所殉的,不是丘比特的 卑鄙伎俩,并不是爱情,令她们香消 玉殒。 凶手是谁?谁手中握着寒光? 谁隐藏在黑夜之中,等着给亲密的人 致命的一击?谁给了她孤独 冰冷...
完全看進去要花點時間,尤其是book1,各種人名讓人覺得雲山霧罩,不過到瞭book2就好多瞭。romans之間各種錯綜復雜的人物關係
评分正如Fagles在後記裏說的,很難意識到埃涅阿斯也隻剩下三年時間。
评分從鼕天看到夏天,終於啃完瞭!
评分完全看進去要花點時間,尤其是book1,各種人名讓人覺得雲山霧罩,不過到瞭book2就好多瞭。romans之間各種錯綜復雜的人物關係
评分隱忍 服從 清楚內心的目標 責任。英雄的楷模。
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