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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction BOOK ONE - Safe Haven After Storm BOOK TWO - The Final Hours of Troy BOOK THREE - Landfalls, Ports of Call BOOK FOUR - The Tragic Queen of Carthage BOOK FIVE - Funeral Games for Anchises BOOK SIX - The Kingdom of the Dead BOOK SEVEN - Beachhead in Latium, Armies Gather BOOK EIGHT - The Shield of Aeneas BOOK NINE - Enemy at the Gates BOOK TEN - Captains Fight and Die BOOK ELEVEN - Camilla’s Finest Hour BOOK TWELVE - The Sword Decides All NOTES THE ROYAL HOUSES OF GREECE AND TROY SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING VARIANTS FROM THE OXFORD CLASSICAL TEXT NOTES ON THE TRANSLATION PRONOUNCING GLOSSARY Other Books by Robert Fagles Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays (Co-ed. with George Steiner, and contributor) The Twickenham Edition of Pope’s Iliad and Odyssey (Assoc. Ed. among others under Maynard Mack) I Vincent: Poems from the Pictures of Van Gogh TRANSLATIONS Bacchylides: Complete Poems (with Adam Parry) Aeschylus: The Oresteia (with W. B. Stanford) Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (with Bernard Knox) Homer: The Iliad (with Bernard Knox) Homer: The Odyssey (with Bernard Knox) Other Books by Bernard Knox Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Trans.) The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theater Essays Ancient and Modern The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics The Norton Book of Classical Literature (Ed.) Backing Into the Future: The Classical Tradition and Its Renewal VIKING Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2006 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Translation copyright © Robert Fagles, 2006 Introduction and notes copyright © Bernard Knox, 2006 All rights reserved An extract from Book Two (under the title “The Death of Priam”) and two extracts from Book Six (“Dido in the Underworld” and “Aeneas and His Father’s Ghost”) originally appeared in The Kenyon Review, Fall 2006. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works: “Secondary Epic” from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden. Copyright © 1960 by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, Inc. The Georgics by Virgil, translated with an introduction and notes by L. P. Wilkinson (Penguin Classics, 1982). Copyright © L. P. Wilkinson, 1982. Used by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Illustrations by David Cain. Copyright © David Cain, 2006. eISBN: 9781101371619 Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrightable materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. http://us.penguingroup.com For Lynne tendimus in Latium
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