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Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Elaine Fantham (Introduction), (Translator) Frederick Ahl Virgil, Elaine Fantham Virgil, Frederick Vergil /. Ahl, Virgil Staff, David L. Powers, Frederick (Trn) Ahl Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-19-923195-8 / 0199231958 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923195-9 / 9780199231959 Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done before. Ahl has used a version of Virgil's ancient hexameter, a swift-moving six-beat line varying between twelve and seventeen syllables, to reproduce the |