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AntiquityFrom her seminal Eros the Bittersweet (1986) to her experimental Float (2016), Bakkhai (2017) and Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2019), Anne Carsons engagement with antiquity has been deeply influential to generations of readers, both inside and outside of academia. One reason for her success is the versatile scope of her classically oriented oeuvre, which she rethinks across multiple media and categories. Yet an equally significant reason is her profile

Cicero's lucid ethical writings formed the foundation of the Western liberal tradition in political and moral thought that continues to this day

When everyone on board has a motive

her extraordinary remark suddenly takes on a chilling significance

and the absence of fundamental difficulties in the text makes it especially suitable for newcomers to his plays

Born circa AD 95

or satirize the influential values associated with Rome

providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features

perceptive eye to this all too human story of passion

and represents contrasts and conflicts between innocence and experience

An in-depth introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological

a profound exploration of the human psyche

and in Books VI–X