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This collection of essays provides in convenient form a number of recent and classic papers on Vergil's Aeneid, covering a wide range of topics. It is particularly intended to be a supplement to standard reading for undergraduate courses in ancient epic poetry, and Vergil in particular. Especial attention has been paid to including useful essays from sources which are rare, out of print, or otherwise difficult to obtain, while care has also been taken to include material which is regularly specified on reading lists. The essays presented here are all in English, but Dr Harrison has attempted to maintain a broad overview of twentieth-century Vergilian criticism; work in other languages is mentioned in his introduction, which is a general survey of literature on the Aeneid, and in an additional bibliography. Contributors include such distinguished scholars as C. M. Bowra, Eduard Fraenkel, N. M. Horsfall, R. O. A. M. Lyne, R. G. M. Nisbet, F. H. Sandbach, F. Solmsen, D. A. West, and R. D. Williams. The work will be useful and accessible to scholars and students of Vergil and to anyone interested in this supreme epic poem.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2286300 in Books
• Published on: 1990-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 486 pages

Review
"A highly useful volume, to be welcomed by students and teachers of the Aeneid on all levels."--Classical Outlook
"This learned commentary belongs in all research libraries, and in the hands of any Vergilian who can afford it, for it is sure to be of lasting value. The volume may be used to find the best recent discussion of any stylistic feature that occurs in Aeneid 10. Style and Latinity are Harrison's strengths and he provides ample evidence to help the reader with the tone, diction, and debt to earlier authors of any passage in the book."--The Classical Association of the Atlantic States INC.
"[A] model of English classical philology-competent, precise, full, and learned..."--The Classical Journal