Vergil: Aeneid 10

by Virgil

Overview

The tenth book of Vergil's Aeneid contains some of the poem's most dramatic war narrative and yet has been unjustly neglected by Vergilian scholars. Making the text accessible to the modern reader, this book provides a full introduction examining the literary aspects of Aeneid 10, notes on the text and translation, a discussion of the major interpretational problems of the Aeneid raised in Book 10, and a facing English translation of the text for those with little or no knowledge of Latin. The first major commentary to deal exclusively with Book 10, this work will be invaluable to all interested in the great Roman epic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198150961
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/19/1997
Series:	Oxford Classical Monographs
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.76(d)
Lexile:	1260L (what's this?)

About the Author

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"He is to be congratulated for the great detail of lexicograpical, historical, geographical, ethnographical, and other material here presented. This is a book that all Virgilian scholars will need to own and consult, on any of these points, and also for what it can teach them about general Latin usage."—Vergilius

"An excellent piece of work that will prove to be a valuable resource."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"The most complete treatment available of an often-neglected book of the Aeneid. The reader with little or no Latin will be especially grateful for the introduction and straightforward translation, while the learned commentary, thorough bibliography, and treatment of specialized topics in the appendix make the book a valuable reference tool for students and scholars in Vergilian studies."—The Classical Outlook

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