Virgil, Aeneid 4 : Text, Translation, Commentary /
Fratantuono, Lee M.,
Virgil, Aeneid 4 : Text, Translation, Commentary / Text, Translation, Commentary Lee M. Fratantuono and R. Alden Smith. - 1 online resource. - Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 462 . - Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 462. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume provides a new critical text, translation, and exhaustive commentary on one of Virgil’s most famous books. The fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy of Dido is replete with allusions to the Medeas of Euripides, Apollonius, and Ennius, as well as to Catullus’ Ariadne and the historical Cleopatra of Virgil’s Augustan Age. The book has intratextual connections to the poet’s own fourth Georgic (as he revisits the topic of apian regeneration and the loss of Eurydice), even as it confronts the reality of Rome’s bloody history with Carthage. The present volume offers the first full-scale commentary on the book in over eighty years, together with a new critical text that reflects recent scholarship on significant difficulties.
9789004521445 9789004521438
10.1163/9789004521445 DOI
Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Classical history--classical civilisation.
Designed--suitable for A and AS Level.
Designed--suitable for UK curricula and examinations.
Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
PA6801.A6
870
Virgil, Aeneid 4 : Text, Translation, Commentary / Text, Translation, Commentary Lee M. Fratantuono and R. Alden Smith. - 1 online resource. - Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 462 . - Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 462. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume provides a new critical text, translation, and exhaustive commentary on one of Virgil’s most famous books. The fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid is the shortest of his epic, and yet it has had an inestimable influence. The tragedy of Dido is replete with allusions to the Medeas of Euripides, Apollonius, and Ennius, as well as to Catullus’ Ariadne and the historical Cleopatra of Virgil’s Augustan Age. The book has intratextual connections to the poet’s own fourth Georgic (as he revisits the topic of apian regeneration and the loss of Eurydice), even as it confronts the reality of Rome’s bloody history with Carthage. The present volume offers the first full-scale commentary on the book in over eighty years, together with a new critical text that reflects recent scholarship on significant difficulties.
9789004521445 9789004521438
10.1163/9789004521445 DOI
Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Classical history--classical civilisation.
Designed--suitable for A and AS Level.
Designed--suitable for UK curricula and examinations.
Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
PA6801.A6
870