The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.
-Vergil, Aeneid
You can support the continuation of this effort, and get unlimited access to my entire body of work for$5 per month on Patreon.
My favorite translation of the Aeneid is the Modern Library edition by Shadi Bartsch, which is richly introduced and essayed/footnoted, although the Fitzgerald and Dryden translations are also classic for their poetry.
Read more about the late, great Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus here.
Music Credit: (Intro and Outro): Max John, Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, Creative Commons (YouTube). Interlude is Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, from Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 4, Movement 2 (IMSLP).
This series will have X parts:
The Odyssey and the Archaic Greece (Done)
Aeschylus and Greek Tragedy (Done)
Aeneas and the Roman Tradition (This)
Catholic Christianity: The Gospel of John, Dante's Comedy (Upcoming)
Protestantism: Pascal's Pensées and Moby Dick (Upcoming)
Stay tuned...
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The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies.
-Vergil, Aeneid
You can support the continuation of this effort, and get unlimited access to my entire body of work for$5 per month on Patreon.
My favorite translation of the Aeneid is the Modern Library edition by Shadi Bartsch, which is richly introduced and essayed/footnoted, although the Fitzgerald and Dryden translations are also classic for their poetry.
Read more about the late, great Hubert "Bert" Dreyfus here.
Music Credit: (Intro and Outro): Max John, Schubert, Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat Major, Creative Commons (YouTube). Interlude is Peter Bradley-Fulgoni, from Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 4, Movement 2 (IMSLP).
This series will have X parts:
The Odyssey and the Archaic Greece (Done)
Aeschylus and Greek Tragedy (Done)
Aeneas and the Roman Tradition (This)
Catholic Christianity: The Gospel of John, Dante's Comedy (Upcoming)
Protestantism: Pascal's Pensées and Moby Dick (Upcoming)
Stay tuned...
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