TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fratantuono,Lee M.
AU  - Smith,R.Alden
TI  - Virgil, Aeneid 4: Text, Translation, Commentary 
T2  - Mnemosyne, Supplements
SN  - 9789004521445
AV  - PA6801.A6 
U1  - 870 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Aeneas (Legendary character)
KW  - Ancient history: to c 500 CE
KW  - Classical history
KW  - classical civilisation
KW  - Designed
KW  - suitable for A and AS Level
KW  - suitable for UK curricula and examinations
KW  - Epic poetry, Latin
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004521445
ER  -