Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (Latin Edition)

The divinely sanctioned plight of Rome's founding hero Aeneas, a Trojan's view of the fall of Troy, the divinely finagled love affair of Aeneas and Phoenician queen Dido, Dido's angry suicide when Aeneas leaves her, their re-meeting in the Underworld, the death of Aeneas' young charge Pallas at Latin Turnus' hands, the revenge killing of Turnus by Aeneas -- all these stories are found within these selections. This edition is designed for highschool Advanced Placement and college level courses: a newly updated and revised version of selected passages from Vergil's Aeneid, Books I-VI, by Clyde Pharr (whose user-friendly format revolutionized Latin textbooks), plus additional passages from books 10 and 12, not found in Pharr. Passages included are: 1.1-519; 2.1-56; 199-297, 469-566, 735-804; 4.1-448, 642-705; 6.1-211, 450-476, 847-901; 10.420-509; 12.791-842, 887-952.Barbara Weiden Boyd is the author of 'Vergil's Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, and 12 (Latin Edition)' with ISBN 9780865164802 and ISBN 0865164800.