Areté Classical Studies Program: 2006

Our first book in our Medieval History rotation will be Virgil's epic poem, "The Aeneid". There are many, many translations available online, in libraries, and reprinted and distributed through popular booksellers (Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookstar).

The links below include online translations as well as suggested translators (most popular). Please feel free to use whatever source you may have on hand or locally available.

General Background on Virgil

Wikipedia article on Virgil
http://www.virgil.org/ - great resource!

Collected Works

Biography

Suetonius: The Life of Virgil, an English translation.
Vita Vergiliana, Aelius Donatus' Life of Virgil in the original Latin.
Virgil.org: Aelius Donatus' Life of Virgil translated into English by David Wilson-Okamura
Project Gutenberg edition of Vergil—A Biography, by Tenney Frank.

Commentary

Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: an Online Bibliography
Virgilmurder (Jean-Yves Maleuvre's website setting forth his theory that Virgil was murdered by Augustus)
The Secret History of Virgil, containing a selection on the magical legends and tall tales that circulated about Virgil in the Middle Ages.

Online and Paperback Texts

HTML (12 pages, indexed) at the Litrix Reading Room (Translated by John Dryden)
HTML (12 pages, 69-99 KB) at MIT Classics Archive (Translated by John Dryden)
Text file (606 KB) at MIT Classics Archive (Translated by John Dryden)

Available at Amazon.Com:
Paperback edition, translated by Allen Mandelbaum (Bantam Classics, 1981).
Paperback edition, translated by Robert Fitzgerald (Vintage, 1990).
Thrift Paperback edition, translated by Charles J. Billson (Dover, 1995).
Audio Cassette edition, unabridged, read by Frederick Davidson (Blackstone Audio Books, 1997).