Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 15: Aeneid Book I
In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming gives our listeners a broad overview of Book I of the Aeneid - he discusses themes, alludes to what will come in later books, and, as always, examines events or plot lines in relation to Christian thought.
Original Air Date: August 31, 2017
Show Run Time: 55 minutes
Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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I have the Dryden Aeneid, which I used when we were reading and discussing it online several years ago. By coincidence, I was considering reading another translation which I already I had before I got the Dryden, but never read. It was done by Charles J Billson. I believe it’s a prose translation (haven’t dug it out of the box yet) and if so, it likely will not be as pleasing as the Dryden. In the mean time, I’m considering getting a Dryden translation of the Iliad (a book which I somehow failed to obtain in any translation) and an Alexander Pope translation of the Odyssey ( I only have a prose translation done by George Herbert Palmer. Again, there’s nothing wrong with it as far as I can see, but it’s prose, and the Pope, viewable online, is much more satisfying).