“Roman, Remember”

This chapter discusses the relative merits of major translations of Virgil’s Aeneid commonly used in American undergraduate classrooms: those by Fagles, Lombardo, and West. I use the famous “Roman, Remember” passage (Aeneid 6.847-853) as a test case. I suggest particular approaches to discussing characteristic Virgilian words in context. I also examine how the passage was quoted historically and how older translators rendered the passage.