This is Ursula K Le Guin’s heartfelt offering to Virgil, a munus in the Roman tradition of a gift to the honoured dead. Lavinia crece sin conocer otra cosa que la paz y la libertad hasta la llegada de sus pretendientes. And in that throng someone scarcely visible, Lavinia, in the words of the great Gilbert Highet, ‘a quiet, dutiful, passive little girl’. In the earlier books we encounter Venus, on one occasion clad in high scarlet leather boots, ghostly Creusa, and towering, tragic Dido later come the enchantress Circe, Camilla the warrior princess, so fleet of foot that she can pass through a cornfield and not disturb a single blade, assorted Nereids, nurses, mothers, and female personifications of vileness. Throughout the Aeneid, they bring about confusion, high drama, tenderness and tragedy, a shining counterpoint and interruption to the background of war and travail, past, present and to come, and the immutable forces of destiny which of course engulf them too, struggle as they may to thwart them. Lavinia is a book of passion and war, generous and austerely beautiful, from a writer working at the height of her powers.Virgil’s women are fabulous, both literally and colloquially. An exceptional combination of history and mythology - an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel FINANCIAL TIMES Subtl. And so she tells us what Vergil did not: the story of her life, and of the love of her life. Lee 'Lavinia A compulsive, heart-breaking historical romance' de Ursula K. When a fleet of Trojan ships sails up the Tiber, Lavinia decides to take her destiny into her own hands. But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs say she must marry a foreigner-that she will be the cause of a bitter war-and that her husband will not live long. Her mother wants her to marry handsome, ambitious Turnus.

Lavinia grows up knowing nothing but peace and freedom, until suitors come. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.

But omens and prophecies spoken by the sacred springs. In a richly imagined, beautiful new novel, an acclaimed writer gives an epic heroine her voice In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.

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