description: We lack automatic and simple answers to the question 'Why Vergil?'-- or many similar questions for that why literature, why art, especially why old literature -- and at that -- why literature in an old language? Yet even after 2,000 years, the voice of Vergil still resonates with the universal human cry. -From the Introduction Vergil's gift to our times, as to others, is to teach us a way to see a world in turmoil, to hold many visions of it simultaneously, excruciatingly, all in absolute conflict with each other, and all of them true. ...Vergil created for us something that perhaps had not existed in quite this way the imaginative possibility of moral choices located between tragic recognition and idealized hope. ...Vergil's popularity in this century and this country may mean that more citizens now share Vergil's artful knowledge. The knowledge is a glimmer, a be prepared, like Aeneas, to believe in something, to act for it, in action to compromise your ideal of it and then, and this is the hard part, to survive with grieving memory to act in hope again, with no promise of success and no choice but to go on. -From the Conclusion Also Vergil's Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 ISBN 0865164819Vergil's Dido &amp; Mimus Magicus ISBN 0865163464 For over 30 years Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers has produced the highest quality Latin and ancient Greek books. From Dr. Seuss books in Latin to Plato's Apology , Bolchazy-Carducci's titles help readers learn about ancient Rome and Greece; the Latin and ancient Greek languages are alive and well with titles like Cicero's De Amicitia and Kaegi's Greek Grammar . We also feature a line of contemporary eastern European and WWII books. Some of the areas we publish in Selections From The AeneidLatin Grammar &amp; PronunciationGreek Grammar &amp; PronunciationTexts Supporting Wheelock's LatinClassical author Vergil, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, CiceroVocabulary Cards For AP Vergil, Ovid, Catullus, HoraceGreek MythologyGreek LexiconSlovak Culture And History
language: English
title: Why Vergil?: A Collection of Interpretations
titlecomplete: Why Vergil?: A Collection of Interpretations
publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers