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About the Author

Frederick Ahl is a professor of classics and comparative literature at Cornell University. His books include Sophocles' Oedipus, Seneca's Phaedra, Lucan: An Introduction, and Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets. He lives in Ithaca, NY.

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Frederick Ahl captures the pathos... to splendid effect. His version reproduces the fierce, hurtling momentum of the original... he has produced the finest translation of the Aeneid in recent memory. Eric Ormsby, New York Sun