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1) The Aeneid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Language
English
Description
Written more than two thousand years ago and one of Western literature's indisputable masterpieces, the Aeneid is the Roman “answer” to Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. The latter celebrate Greek civilization through the stories of Greek victory in the Trojan War and the exploits of Odysseus. Vergil's Aeneid sings the triumph of Roman culture, transforming Troy's tragedy into a step on the path toward the founding of Rome by the descendants...
Author
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Numinous world volume 1
Language
English
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Gull, believed to be an oracle destined to counsel kings, must chose between destiny and adventure after the arrival of nine black ships and an exiled Trojan prince who promises to reunite Gull with her mother's people.
4) Lavinia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
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Description
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.
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English
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The Aeneid is the great national epic of ancient Rome, and one of the most important works of literature ever written. And with Professor Vandiver's twelve instructive lectures, you'll enter fully into the gripping tale that Virgil tells. Join Aeneas on his long journey west from ruined Troy to the founding of a new nation in Italy, and see how he weaves a rich network of compelling human themes. Your encounter with the Aeneid focuses on careful,...
14) Dido & Aeneas
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A danced performance of the Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas. Dido, the noble queen of Carthage, has fallen in love with the Trojan Prince Aeneas. While the court celebrates the imminent union of the two monarchs, the evil sorceress with her coven of witches plots their downfall. Romance leads to hearbreak and tragedy.
15) Aeneas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the character of Aeneas and his importance in Greek and Roman mythology.
Author
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world - and literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism - the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate - that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the universal pathos that only a masterpiece can express,...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of how Aenaes Mackintosh and his crew aboard the Aurora labored to complete their mission to haul sledges of supplies across two thousand miles of ice and snow to rendezvous with Antarctica explorer Ernest Shackleton, not knowing that Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was mired in ice.
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