VIRGIL: RE: teaching Aeneid in translation

2004-01-05 Thread Helen South
What a pleasant start to the working week. For my part, as a student, I'd prefer a translation that captures the poetry rather than the latin, when studying a text in translation. Let us be moved by beauty, and forgive the odd mistranslation. I took up Greek when studying the Oresteia in

VIRGIL: RE: virgil in translation

2004-01-06 Thread Helen South
-hand. Its 1952, Hogarth Press, London. best regards Helen South Vincenzo Crupi wrote: Ergo extat poetica versio Vergilii Anglica Aeneide Latina a vergilio ipso scripta amabilior ? Aeneide pulchrior? Sinant Magistri Australiae moveri discipulas suas a pulchritudine. Benedetto Croce fortasse