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With as Many Voices: The Aeneid of Virgil Wars and a man I sing.
With these marvelously compact words, Virgil opens his great epic with a promise to tell not of warfare alone, of great clashes of armies and heroes, but also of the very human struggles of a man entangled in war and entrapped by Fate. The poet's fulfillment of this promise assured The Aeneid's (Viking, New York, 2006) longevity and stature in the history of literature. A poet of ...