18 books like Aeneidos

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Aeneid Publius Vergilius Maro · 1839 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Challenging i don't think anybody else has ever read this book without first being forced to learn latin. yet it is worth reading in translation .the setting, sicily, libya, italy some twenty-five hundred years ago comes alive as communities of farmers and small towns united by person-sized culture. the land, the government, the value of father-son, husband-wife bonds, sports, hand-to hand combat, all… Shares: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Legends, Poetry

Aeneis Publius Vergilius Maro · 1592 · ★ 3.9 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Demanding "Virgil's masterpiece of Latin poetry, a lively, dramatic poem of daring and adventure, of love and loss, of devotion and death. " Shares: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Legends, Poetry

Opera Publius Vergilius Maro · 1502 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding A timeless exploration of humanity's connection to nature, The Georgics of Virgil delves into the art and labor of agriculture while weaving in the grandeur of Roman patriotism and mythology. Composed by Virgil over seven years and completed in 29 B.C.E., this masterful poetic work offers meditations on the cycles of cultivation and their profound alignment with the natural and divine order. Its… Shares: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Latin language, Legends

Apparition Poems Adam Fieled · 2006 · 6p · ≈ 12m · Moderate Apparition Poems, by American artist Adam Fieled, is an epic in fragments, and includes poems which run the formal and thematic gamut- sonnets, monologues, lyrics, meta-poems, and poems of philosophical inquiry. It was released as a Blazevox print book in 2010. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

P. Vergilii Maronis opera Publius Vergilius Maro · 1532 · 610p · ≈ 20h · Demanding 4to. ff. [2] (blank), [1] (plates), [14] (prelims), pp. 246, 588, [192], ff. [2] (blank). Signatures: â4, ê4, î4, ô2, A-Z4, Aa-Gg4, Hh3, 2A-Z4, 2Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, AAaa-DDdd4, EEee2, a-z4, aa4. Contemporary French calf. Gilt filet on boards’ edges. Gilded spine on 5 bars, red panel. Red edges. Signature “A.G.” on first blank. Manuscript note on second blank in French, stating this is a first… Shares: Aeneas, Latin Epic poetry, Poetry

Pharsalia Lucan · 1486 · ★ 3.9 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Demanding "In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and political dilemma of civil war and portrays Pompey's loss of authority during his withdrawal from… Shares: Latin Epic poetry, Latin language, Poetry, History

Gilgamesh Stephen Mitchell · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -… Shares: Epic poetry, Legends, Poetry, History

Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment A. J. Wyatt · 1914 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Heroes of Greece and Troy Roger Lancelyn Green · 1960 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Un acercamiento perfecto para el público más joven a la cultura clásica y sus mitos, en una magistral versión de la última gran leyenda de la Edad Heroica, el asedio de Troya: con su caída comienza la Historia. Roger Lancelyn Green se acerca una vez más a la mitología, en esta ocasión para contar la extraordinaria historia de Helena, cuyo rostro lanzó mil naves al mar, y la del juicio de Paris;… Shares: Trojan War, Legends

Troy Stephen Fry · 2020 · ★ 4.3 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "A retelling of the Greek myth of the Trojan war"-- Shares: Trojan War, Legends

Satirae Horace · 1763 · ★ 5.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in… Shares: Epic poetry, Latin language, Poetry

Marmion Sir Walter Scott · 1800 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to… Shares: Poetry, History

Beowulf Ian Serraillier · 1954 · 47p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A retelling of the classic tale of Beowulf, appropriate for young adults. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary J.R.R. Tolkien · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's… Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Tales of Troy and Greece Andrew Lang · 1907 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging A magnificent collection of the most stirring myths from the ancient world, Andrew Lang's Tales of Troy and Greece presents five major narrative cycles that have shaped the literary imagination for centuries. Illustrated by H.J. Ford, this classic work brings together the greatest heroes and adventures of Greek legend in vivid, accessible prose. The collection opens with "Ulysses the Sacker of… Shares: Trojan War, Legends, History

The Odyssey of Homer Richmond Lattimore · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate An English translation of the Greek epic in which Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Trojan War, while his son Telemachos and wife Penelope are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return. Includes a glossary, background information, literary criticism, and illustrations. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

Silvae Publius Papinius Statius · 1472 · ★ 3.8 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Statius' Silvae, thirty-two occasional poems, were written probably between 89 and 96 AD. Here the poet congratulates friends, consoles mourners, sends thanks, admires a memorable scene. The verse is light in touch, with a distinct picture quality. Statius gives us in these impromptu poems clear images of Domitian's Rome. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This… Shares: Latin Epic poetry, Poetry, History

The Fall of Arthur J.R.R. Tolkien · 2013 · ★ 3.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The first publication of a previously unknown narrative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England's legendary hero, King Arthur. Shares: Epic poetry, Poetry

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