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Virgil's Aeneid
A Reader's Guide
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This guide is ideal for professional academics, students of classics, and interested lay readers seeking to deepen their understanding of Virgil's Aeneid through detailed literary analysis and rich historical context.
Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived.
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Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil’s poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived.
Virgil's Aeneid guides readers through the complexity of Virgil’s poetic style and imagery. All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when necessary. The guide provides useful historical and social context in which to understand the poem as it was viewed in its time.
It includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman religion and the Roman concept of ‘character’. Additionally, it features a helpful appendix which clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter.
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Critical reception highlights Ross's work as a clear, detailed, and moderate study that benefits both scholars and general readers. The Bryn Mawr Classical Review praises it as a lyrical and insightful reading, while the New England Classical Journal notes its clarity and well-expressed content. Choice describes it as beautifully conceived and nuanced, making it a worthy companion to previous editions, and the Journal of Classics Teaching calls the ideas thought provoking.
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ISBN: 9781405159739
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 February 2007
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 263g
Pages: 176
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About the Author
David O. Ross is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan. He is author of Style and Tradition in Catullus (1969), Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus, Elegy, and Rome (1975), and Virgil’s Elements: Physics and Poetry in the Georgics (1987).
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