Virgil
Subtitle: Aeneid Book IX (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Contributors: Philip Hardie (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780521359528
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines; Epic poetry, Latin; Poetry; Language; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; General; Aeneas (Legendary character)--Poetry; Language Arts & Disciplines : General; Literary Collections / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Poetry / Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Aeneas (Legendary character)
First sentence: Critics since antiquity have seen the last six books of the Aeneid as Virgil's 'Iliad', the story of the war in Italy that Aeneas must fight after his 'Odyssey' of wandering and sexual temptation in the first six books.