tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post3784493567488181926..comments2023-08-26T02:27:21.897-07:00Comments on Frisbee: A Book Journal: Virgil, Robert Fagles, and Margaret DrabbleFrisbeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07394353185610393979noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-7481227219030104422010-05-14T05:29:56.959-07:002010-05-14T05:29:56.959-07:00Great review, makes me want to read 'The Aenia...Great review, makes me want to read 'The Aeniad'. (Hope you get this comment even though it's on your old blog.) Is there any historical linkage between Greece/Troy and Italy or is that all just made up? I guess what I'm asking is did people from Greece actually settle Italy? I think I may have actually bought this book but haven't read it yet.Tonyhttp://anokatony.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-64972489280176768572009-10-01T07:23:09.271-07:002009-10-01T07:23:09.271-07:00I like all the translations. I'm impressed th...I like all the translations. I'm impressed that you had Mandelbaum as a teacher. He is very good. <br /><br />There is something very clear and forceful about Fagles, who somehow sounds modern yet retains that classical air. <br /><br />I even like the last six books. Naturally I prefer "the Odyssey" part but his literary homage to The Iliad is poignant and sad.<br /><br />Yes, I like The Seven Sisters very much!Kat at Thornfield Hall Reduxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525125671217787722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25137929.post-88402232536049834182009-09-30T20:46:27.560-07:002009-09-30T20:46:27.560-07:00Thank you for your comment on my blog and I hope y...Thank you for your comment on my blog and I hope your latin class yesterday went well.<br /><br />I've not read (nor own) Fagles but I have read Mandelbaum a couple of times, and I have the tapes of Derek Jacobi reading Fitzgerald aloud. Fagles sound more like Fitzgerald and in my experience students prefer Fitzgerald because the language seems more modern. Jacobi reads it beautifully.<br /><br />Still I prefer Mandelbaum. It's more melancholy and poetical (I use the old-fashioned term deliberately). I had him as a teacher and also like his Dante very much.<br /><br />As to Seven Sisters, that's a Drabble I love. As with Atwood, sometimes I dislike her novels, and then again I'll love one of their books. I finished Cat's Eye; superb book. The title made me remember an episode in Mary Poppins where Mary and the children are visited by the Seven Sisters. Pleiade. <br /><br />I'm much more cheerful just now than I've been in a couple of days. I do love the Aeneid and read it as an anti-war poem, and I like Aeneas too :) and the story of Dido; up to the 6th book it's just magnificent, highly original.<br /><br />EllenEllenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14979942382683140531noreply@blogger.com