Vergil: The Poet's Life

by Sarah Ruden

A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid

"Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy 'ancient' into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined as] a sympathetic, three-dimensional figure. . . . The existence of the Aeneid is cause for gratitude. So is Ms. Ruden's sensitive, celebratory portrait of its maker."--Willard Spiegelman,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300256612
• ISBN13: 9780300256611
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"