I, Virgil - Hardcover

Wishart, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340628170 ISBN 13: 9780340628171

Publisher: Sceptre imprint of Hodder and Stoughton, 1995

Synopsis

He is poisoning me. I saw it in his eyes before we sailed, despite the smile on his lips: 'It's only a fever, Virgil. And you deserve it for traipsing off to Greece without telling me. What made you think the poem needed three years' editing, you beetroot?' It is as artificial as it sounds, this bluff heartiness and rustic eccentricity of language. Like so many of his amiable qualities it serves a very practical purpose. Octavian is nothing if not a pragmatist. Literally nothing. Strip the layers from an onion. The bit that is left, that is Octavian. I, Virgil, the ‘autobiography’ of Rome’s greatest poet, traces the fall of the Republic and the rise of the first emperor, Augustus Caesar. Warts and all.

About this title

About the Author:

David Wishart was born in Arbroath, Scotland. He studied Classics at Edinburgh University, and after a spell of teaching Latin and Greek in secondary school retrained as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, working for various companies in Kuwait, Greece and Saudi Arabia. He returned to Scotland in 1990, and lives in Carnoustie, Angus. His first book, ‘I, Virgil’, was published in 1995; ‘Ovid’ – the first of the Marcus Corvinus series – followed a year later. He is married to Rona and has two children and (currently) four grandchildren.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sceptre imprint of Hodder and Stoughton
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0340628170
• ISBN 13: 9780340628171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 337