Virgil, Aeneid 3 : a commentary / by Nicholas Horsfall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horsfall, Nicholas, author.

Series:

Mnemosyne, Supplements 273.

Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum Ducentesimum Septimum Tertium, 0169-8958

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Virgil. Aeneis--Liber 3.

Virgil.

Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.

Aeneas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 pages).

Other Title:

Virgil, Aeneid three

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

Introductory matter and commentary in English; original text in Latin with facing English translation.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

TEXT AND TRANSLATION

COMMENTARY

VIRGIL'S SOURCES FOR THE CUMAEAN SIBYL; THE EVIDENCE OF BK.6

LATIN INDEX

ENGLISH INDEX

INDEX OF NAMES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-1824-7

OCLC:

67405670

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047418245 DOI