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Virgil up to speed.(The Aeneid)(Book review)

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From: New Criterion
Date: 20080501
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Sarah Ruden, translator The Aeneid. Yale University Press, 320 pages, $35

Introductions to Virgil's Aeneid often begin with reference to Homer. Rightly so. Knowing the Iliad and Odyssey , Virgil translated and reworked phrases, similes, and an enormous number of episodes and elements from them for his Aeneid --so much so that already during his lifetime he was criticized for stealing. He reportedly replied to his critics that they should try such theft: they'd find it was easier to snatch Hercules' club from him than to take verses from Homer. Readers of Greek and ...

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