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Horsfall, Nicholas.

Virgil, Aeneid 3 : a commentary / Virgil, Aeneid three by Nicholas Horsfall. - 1 online resource (liv, 513 pages) - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 273 0169-8958 ; . - Mnemosyne, Supplements 273. Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. xliii-liv) and indexes.

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.

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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.


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

ISBN: 9789047418245

Standard No.: 10.1163/9789047418245 DOI

LCCN: 2006044028

Subjects--Personal Names:
Virgil. Liber 3. Aeneis.
Aeneas (Legendary character)

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Aeneis (Virgil)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
Epic poetry, Latin.
Literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PA6825 / .H6668 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 873/.01