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This prose translation of Virgil's Latin account of the Fall of Troy in Book II of the Aeneid captures the colour, passion and pace of the original in modern English. It is annotated with notes for the general reader on the principal characters, and with appendices on the life and times of Virgil and the social and political context of the Aeneid's creation.
Virgil
David R. Slavitt has been lauded for his translations of Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Aeschylus, and Aristophanes, as well as Propertius in Love and De Rerum Natura, both from UC Press.
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