How Long to Read The Last Trojan Hero

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Trojan Hero?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read The Last Trojan Hero by Philip R. Hardie

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.' The resonant opening lines of Virgil's 'Aeneid' rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been passed down to later ages by antiquity. And after the 'Odyssey' and the 'Iliad', Virgil's masterpiece is arguably the greatest classical text in the whole of Western literature. This sinuous and richly characterised epic vitally influenced the poetry of Dante, Petrarch and Milton. The doomed love of Dido and Aeneas inspired Purcell, while for T.S. Eliot Virgil's poem was 'the classic of all Europe'. The poet's stirring tale of a refugee Trojan prince, 'torn from Libyan waves' to found a new homeland in Italy, has provided much fertile material for writings on colonialism and for discourses of ethnic and national identity. The 'Aeneid' has even been viewed as a template and a source of philosophical justification for British and American imperialism and adventurism. In his major new book Philip Hardie explores the many remarkable afterlives - ancient, medieval and modern - of the 'Aeneid' in literature, music, politics, the visual arts and film -- Dust jacket.

How long is The Last Trojan Hero?

The Last Trojan Hero by Philip R. Hardie is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Last Trojan Hero Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read The Last Trojan Hero aloud.

What Reading Level is The Last Trojan Hero?

The Last Trojan Hero is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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