Re: VIRGIL: Loeb for student text?

[Jim O'Hara]

I've taught with the Penguins of the Eclogues and Georgics, and both 
seem to work.  I don't expect great literary merit in a teaching 
translation, but Lee's Ecogues read fairly well, and have Latin on the 
facing page.  Wilkinson's Georgics is serviceable, and allows me to 
make points I want to make, and students seem to be able to understand 
them (if we can ever understand the Georgics), if I introduce them 
extensively.  Both have decent notes, though a tiny bit outdated; the 
notes of both can be used by people who take a different take on the 
poems.

For the Aeneid I use Fitzgerald, but wish there was something with 
decent notes.


Quoting Antonio Cussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


El 05-09-2006, a las 14:32, Leofranc Holford-Strevens escribis:

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christine Perkell  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
why not order two different paperbacks--one Aeneid, one Eclogues/  
Georgics. I should think the Loeb would be deadly.

I admit to knowing nothing about what students want, even in Britain 
 let alone in America, nor have I ever looked at the Loeb in 
question  beyond seeing what Goold had to say about some difficulty, 
but what is  being sought in an English translation: something that 
gives a  reasonable approximation to the surface sense, or something 
that has  literary life? I can imagine that the former, if in 
workaday prose,  would be deadly, and the latter convey too much of 
the wrong life;  personally I find (for instance) Dryden a lot 
easier to take than Day  Lewis, but that is because I appreciate 
seventeenth-century poets more  than twentieth, not because in 
either case I feel I am reading Vergil.

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