I can't praise Mandelbaum enough. It saddened me to learn years ago when I was first learning about all of these ancient greats, that what I have I can't get anymore. Why Viking Portables pulled Binyon's superb, although archaic-sounding terza rima and replaced it with Mark Musa's dreck I'll never get over. 20 yrs. I had never heard of the Aeneid, and found it in a bookstore, Kepler's in Menlo Park, CA, who were sold out of Dante. Even Mandelbaum's unbelievable Calif. Dante ed. turns up in remainder sales. I bought the entire set, but the world is still a very strange place. Penguin dropped Dorothy L Sayers' Dante, a standard by which others were judged, too and replaced with someone else I don't like as much. And Penguin can't get over re-issuing Pope's and Dryden's Iliads. Don't know about you, but don't 1000's of rhymed couplets get old, even Pope?
Anyway, thanks for all of the mail everyone, and keep in touch. Love to meet all of these nuts about Statius, Juvenal, Virgilio and my beloved Dante. Love, bodywhomp98 ---dwyerj1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fitzgerald was not available for my summer class. I chose Allen > Mandelbaum and am very pleased (ISBN 0-520-04550-5) > > > John P. Dwyer, Ph.D. > CCPS/ UND/ FL Gulf Coast U > > . . . I must agree, that the knowlege which enables us to comprehend the > wisdom of the antients, and to be improved by it, deserves to be call'd > learning. Yet the antients may be read, I suppose, and not understood? > (_SCG_ 1.12.53) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
