Robert Fagles - Report - New York Times
Robert Fagles follows his celebrated translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey with a new translation of the Aeneid, becoming in the process one of the few people to translate all three epics. Remarkably, Fagles, who earned his doctorate in English literature, taught himself Greek and Latin. The Times' review has an interesting discussion of the subtle distinctions that Fagles attempted to capture between the poem's "public" voice and the private voice expressiong Aeneas' personal anguish.