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He has made several visits to Afghanistan in recent years, and his most recent book, The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Profile Books and Harvard University Press, 2012), traces the history of these remarkable monuments from their Buddhist origins 1,400 years ago, through their celebrity in Islamic wonder literature and European travel writing, up until their destruction in 2001. The focus of most of his research is Roman literature and culture, and he is the author of the well-received study of Roman poetic form, Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse (Oxford, 2010).īut he also has a longstanding fascination for Afghanistan, contemporary and historical, which he traces to his discovery, at an impressionable age, of a Russian samovar inscribed “Candahar 1881”. Llewelyn Morgan is a Classicist, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. In the final module, we turn from exploring broader themes and ideas to doing a bit of close reading-in this case, lines 390-6, a description of two twins who are killed by Pallas. 10 Off 2 or More Books, eBooks, or Audiobooks With Code: JULYREADS. After that, we turn to the presentation of Aeneas himself in Book 10-a highly ambiguous presentation that sees him engage in human sacrifice and be compared to the monster Aegaeon, but is he simply fulfilling his duty to Pallas? In the third module, we consider the presentation of some of the lesser figures of the poem-Pallas, Mezentius, Lausus and Turnus-before moving on in the fourth module to think about Italy and the status of Hercules. The Latin text of Vergils Aeneid with metrical scansion and macrons marking naturally long vowels based on the Greenough 1900 edition. In the first module, we consider the council of gods that opens the books, a supremely impressive occasion, no doubt, but one in which precisely nothing is decided. A foot is either a dactyl (long short short) or a spondee (long long) 3. Dactylic hexameter has six feet per line. Scansion means looking at the words, dividing them into syllables, marking the longs and shorts, marking the feet. In this course, Professor Llewelyn Morgan (University of Oxford) explores Book 10 of Virgil's Aeneid. This is the first line of Vergil’s Aeneid.