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This is one of the most beautifully illustrated children's books ever. And the story isn't too bad, either.

The thing that makes this translation so great for me personally is that Fagles didn't try to adhere to the blank verse of every other translation I've read, and I think that's why it was so engaging (for some reason reading this particular epic in blank verse has failed to hold my interest in the past) - I've never felt so gripped by The Aeneid, and Fagles's methods really give it a certain oratory quality, like it's an epic bedtime story. That being said, every so often a certain modern phrase would throw me out of the story, but I was always sucked right back in. I think it depends on how attached you feel to the classical text, because, for instance, if Fagles did the same for my Heaven/Hell epics by Dante and Milton I would be less than pleased. Weirdo double standard, maybe, but whatever. Fagles made me really *love* The Aeneid, which Fitzgerald failed to do. I'm trying to decide which of his translations to try next - I've heard awesome things about his Iliad and Odyssey, but I also noticed he did The Oresteia and the 3 Theban plays, so...