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    <body><![CDATA[There are plenty of reviews here telling you why you should or shouldn't read book X. This review of Virgil's &quot;Aeneid,&quot; the largely-completed first century BC nationalist epic poem that recounts the Trojan War and Aeneas's role in the eventual founding of Rome, will tell you instead why yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24616393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gifted poet's account of playing Mario Brothers to level 7.<br/>Expect a lot of &quot;then Aeneas was told he needed to fetch a golden bough. But he could only obtain the bough if he completed such-and-such. So he did. Then he went to the underground world and gave the bough to the boatman, and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11263251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been meaning to read the Aeneid for years.  The Armorial Bearings of the City of Melbourne have the motto: Vires Acquirit Eundo which is taken from book four of the Aeneid.  It translates as, “It gathers strength as it goes”.  Melbourne’s first judge gave the young town the motto – bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17395341">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lombardo's translation of Virgil's <em>Aeneid</em> is fabulous. He abridged it,so presumably what was left out is less interesting. What is left is a fast-paced epic that reads like action-and-gore-packed war movie in the final few books. This was a read-aloud drama for a home-schooling history class, and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51154799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Virgil’s “Aeneid” is one of the great classical poems.  In this translation, the esteemed team of Robert Fagles (translator) and Bernard Knox (author of the Introduction) reprise their partnership in Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey.”<br/><br/>This epic work begins with the destruction...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57312342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The</em> epic song of wars and men. If blood, guts and epic poetry are you thing, this book is for you.  Given the introductory words of the story, it is shocking how Aneas is pushed along by the Fates and the Gods, never does he have much free will or freedom of action.  Rome, we are told, was founded o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50243434">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thing that makes this translation so great for me personally is that Fagles didn't try to adhere to the blank verse of every other translation I've read, and I think that's why it was so engaging (for some reason reading this particular epic in blank verse has failed to hold my interest in the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1163114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Aneid * two reviews*<br/>By: Virgil (translated by Robert Fagles)<br/>Pgs: 386<br/>Publisher: Penguin Group Publishing<br/>ISBN: 0-670-03803-2<br/><br/>	We all remember the myth about Achilles and his death. It was one of the most classic stories about strength, and people’s weaknesses, and ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79445367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I sing of arms and of awesome. If it weren't for Vergil, we'd never have heard &quot;The 1st of the 9th was a old calvary division that traded in their horses for helicopters, and went tear-assing around 'Nam looking for the shit&quot; nor known that dawns were rosy-fingered or who was allowed to vo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63909846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Homer's beautiful epics, reading Virgil's Aeneid was a huge letdown.  The Aeneid was written as propaganda for Emperor Augustus, and it reads as propaganda.  Oh yes, Rome's glorious founding came at the hands of the noble son of Venus, Aeneas, who was also a son of wonderful Troy.  Aen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57097656">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Listening to this book on CD was like listening to music.   Sometimes I focused intently on the words and thoughts, but much of the time, I simply enjoyed the cadence and phrasing.  The reader, Simon Callow, was masterful!  Every line was interesting in itself, but his performance enthralled.  If I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37021095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that this is the best translation. I know that one loses alot of texture and meaning when it is translated, but Fitzgerald does a beautiful job incorporating the poetic beauty of the work. It is indeed one of my favorite books ever. It is unbelievable in so many ways; first that this was wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67387931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took a queer literature class, and this was one of the books that we were assigned to read. This, to me, seemed to be a much better tale than Homer's Odyssey and Iliad combined. My biased opinion comes because of the tale that is told about Nisus and Euryalus and how much there is hidden within th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68880785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Virgil did an excellent job addressing the timelessness of emotions, particularly in regards to his portrayal of lovesick Dido, as well as revealing the most important aspects of traditional Roman culture and stoicism. I really enjoyed this work even though, I must admit, I only read selected books ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70809916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading the new translation for my organization's Winter Weekend program (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2008.html" title="http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2008.html">http://mainehumanities.org/programs/2008...</a>). I would give anything to hear what Antoine Boisvert thinks of it...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Virgil got most of his ideas from Homer, and the influence is very evident in this text. The Aeneid is interesting, but for me it just is not as entertaining or nearly as well composed as The Illiad or The Odessey. The Aeneid does not translate as well, nor is it as pleasurable to read. And just kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56699003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is a world classic and there is no doubt about it's grandeur and importance in our western culture.<br/><br/>However, my personal opinion is as follows:<br/>I did not enjoy it as much as The Odyssey. It was too dry and political in the beginning and then turned into a Rom<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1381.The_Odyssey" title="The Odyssey by Homer">an Iliad</a>, and that's just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46755165">more...</a>]]></body>
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