Aeneid
by Virgil
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Author: VirgilReader: Jill Balcon
Reader: Toby Stephens
Narrator: Paul Scofield
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 2002-11
ISBN: 9626342781
Publisher: Naxos Audiobooks
Book Reviews of Aeneid
Book Review: Translation So-So, CD Could Be Better
Summary: 3 Stars
This version, translated by C. Day Lewis, is more than passable, but not up to the standard of Robert Fagles. The audio recording also suffers from using an aging Jill Balcon, who for some reason was not only cast for female roles, but the god Mercury. For goddesses such as Venus and Juno, one would expect to hear the voices of 20-year old women, not the craggy voice of an older woman or women. Paul Scofield relentlessly reads the text, but completely lacks the force of Derek Jacobi in the Iliad and Odyssey. Jacobi's rendition of Hermes (Mercury) is that of a cheery lad, not the angry god who prods the wandering Aeneas ever onward.
I realize Virgil uses the Roman names of the gods, but I would have been more comfortable coming from hearing the Iliad and going right into the Aeneid using the Greek names. The continuity would have been better.
All in all, this version is okay seeing nothing better is available, but Mercury riding the sky's "breezes" I think would have been better rendered "winds."
It's a remarkable story and one I wish Jacobi would do. But it's easy to get spoiled after listening to him. No one else can come close, though Toby Stphens himself is far better than Scofield.
Summary of Aeneid
Virgil's Aeneid, one of the greatest Classical poems, tells the story of Aeneas, son of Priam, after the fall of Troy. His quest is to find the site "in the west" where he will found a new town prophesied to be the seat of a world empire - Rome. This great poem, in a modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by the great classical actor Paul Scofield, with Jill BalconClassics Books
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