ENGLISH

Virgil, Aeneid 3

By Nicholas Horsfall

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2006
ISBN
9004148280, 9789004148284
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10389855 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 273
Pages
567\567
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-07-01 08:52:46
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

This is the first detailed commentary on Aeneid 3, being some three times the size of that by R.D.Williams (1962), and aimed at the scholarly public. It treats fully the thorny problem of book 3's place in the growth of the poem, matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. Full attention is given to matters geographical and nautical. New critical approaches and recent developments in Virgilian studies have been taken into account, with more attention to their spirit than to their language. A text, with translation, and three indices are included.

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