00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001431 20200508201451 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-5316x12 010-0520001431 eng 081.20 081.20/VIR/G Virgil Great Books of The Western World Ke-5 Chicago Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 v, 321 hlm, 21 cm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 12 served the history, philosophy and works of Virgil. Publius Vergilius Maro was a classical Roman poet. He was the author of epics in three modes: the Bucolics (or Eclogues), the Georgics and the substantially completed Aeneid, the last being an epic poem in the heroic mode, which comprised twelve books (as opposed to 24 in each of the epic poems by Homer) and became the Roman Empire's national epic.