{"id":1228,"date":"2024-06-11T00:43:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2024-06-11T00:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T00:43:56","slug":"24-virgil-70-19-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/11\/24-virgil-70-19-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"24. Virgil (70-19 BC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Original language: Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Aeneid<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"315\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/virgil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" style=\"width:auto;height:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/virgil.jpg 315w, https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/virgil-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I read the Rolfe Humphries translation, published 1951 by Scribners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fought in the Trojan war, had some more adventures, then went to Italy and became the ancestor of Rome&#8217;s founders. Along the way he won and broke the heart of Queen Dido of Carthage.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trojan War held such a sway over literature, history and myth, even a thousand years after it happened.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed the Aeneid and the translation is good. But it&#8217;s such an Iliad\/Odyssey ripoff, it detracts from it. Also, it&#8217;s an obvious piece of Rome boosterism.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Last thoughts on the Aeneid\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rolfe Humphries translation is really excellent, and a major part of my enjoying the book. It is a good book, despite its two major flaws which are (1) the steals from the Iliad, and (2) the rah-rah Rome boosterism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original language: Latin. The Aeneid I read the Rolfe Humphries translation, published 1951 by Scribners. It&#8217;s the story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fought in the Trojan war, had some more adventures, then went to Italy and became the ancestor of Rome&#8217;s founders. Along the way he won and broke the heart of Queen Dido [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}