{"product_id":"virgil-a-life-understanding-classics","title":"Virgil: A Life (Understanding Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in 70 BC  in a small village near Mantua  Publius Vergilius MaroVirgilgrew up to be hailed as the greatest Roman poet. And although his work has influenced Western literature for two millennia  little is known about the man himself. Who was the man who created the Aeneidone of the most important poems in Western literatureand such universal phrases as love conquers all and fortune favors the bold? Peter Levi here reconstructs the poets life  from a childhood largely shrouded in mystery to his work as a great literary genius and revolutionary poet  by examining archaeological and historical evidence from Augustan Rome  as well as through close readings of the poets own work. Virgil is an intensely personal poet  yet he is anonymous . . . My aim is not so ambitious as to try and restore his prestige single-handed. It has simply been to try to understand him in his original context. In this highly acclaimed  nowclassic biography  Peter Levi discards the myths and brilliantly reveals the life of Virgil and the extraordinary times during which he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984101568565,"sku":"ByrdShop_184885904X","price":61.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781848859043.jpg?v=1770822954","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/virgil-a-life-understanding-classics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}