The Aeneid of Virgil 9780553897784, 0553897780

Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literatu

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The Aeneid of Virgil
9780553897784, 0553897780

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This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams (1962), and a

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The first book-length study of the English Renaissance translations of Virgil’s Aeneid This study brings to light a his

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This is the first comprehensive commentary on Aeneid 11. The commentary treats fully matters of linguistic and textual i

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Introduction, text and translation, detailed commentary and indices to Aeneid 2 are here offered on a scale not previous

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Book VIII of the Aeneid presents a crucial turning point in the mythological foundation of Rome, with clear political re

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This commentary began in 1967, but most of the period from 1971 to 1996 was spent on work that was in some sense an esse

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Book VIII is one of the most attractive and important books of Virgil's Aeneid. It includes the visit of Aaneas to

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Virgil’s Aeneid 5 has long been among the more neglected sections of the poet’s epic of Augustan Rome. Book 5 opens the

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