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This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas - like Odysseus in Odyssey XI - visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his 'Homeric' past, the wanderings he has undergone in the poem's first half, and the destiny mapped out for his descendants, which culminates in the age of Augustus and his lost successor Marcellus. Aeneas is at once a figure of past, present and future.
This edition replaces the long-serving edition by Gould & Whiteley, making the book more accessible to today's students and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. It includes an introduction, annotation to explain language and content, and a comprehensive vocabulary.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Historical background
2. Virgil's life and writings
3. Virgil and his predecessors
4. The Aeneid as a poem
5. Summary of the Aeneid
6. The Sixth Book
7. Metre
8. Virgil's use of metre and language
9. Metre and syntax
10. Metrical rarities
Some reading
Notes
Aeneid VI: The Latin Text
Notes on the Text
Appendix: Virgil, Ennius, Lucretius
Index 1: Literary, grammatical and metrical terms
Index 2: Names in the text
Index 3: Other names
Vocabulary
Abbreviations
Product details
| Published | Aug 14 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 206 |
| ISBN | 9781853996535 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 8 x 5 inches |
| Series | Latin Texts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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