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...AENEID Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Random House; 416 pages...
...taking on such a work, Poet and Translator Robert Fitzgerald inherited these general difficulties and a few specific ones as well. Virgil's Aeneid is one of the two or three most influential texts in Western literature, yet it achieved such eminence in part through an accident of history. Latin retreated to monasteries and survived the Dark Ages in manuscript, while Greek was largely forgotten...
...sing of warfare and a man at war." Fitzgerald's version of The Aeneid's first words ("Arma virumque cano") veers sharply away from the traditional reading in English, enshrined in the title of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet singing of arms and the man was not all that Virgil's fellow Romans in the 1st century B.C. would have understood him to mean. They had already been thoroughly schooled on who Aeneas was and what he had, in legend, accomplished; neither his identity nor his military prowess could have been...
This explanatory impulse pervades Fitzgerald's Aeneid and brings both the story and its main character back to life...
...donating our values to the kids for them to pick up," Bechtold says. Judith Y. Shields '84 chairman of the active Currier committee, points to the $10,000 her House donated to the Jefferson Park housing project in the Fitzgerald neighborhood--the proceeds of the winter's dance marathon--as a major project...