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1 online resource (1 audio file (780 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Tantor unabridged classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Michael Page. |
| Summary |
After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, the poet Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honor the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas, Augustus's legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his seven-year journey: to Carthage, where he fell tragically in love with Queen Dido; to the underworld, in the company of the Sibyl of Cumae; and, finally, to Italy, where he founded Rome. It is a story of defeat and exile, and of love and war.Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism-the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling, and the force of fate. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express. The Aeneid is a book for all the time and all people. This version of The Aeneid is the classic translation by John Dryden. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Aeneas (Legendary character) -- Poetry.
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Epic poetry, Latin -- Translations into English.
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Legends -- Rome -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Page, Michael (Michael J.) Narrator.
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Page, Michael.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400196005 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400196000 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10756028 |
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