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Aeneid 4

By Vergil
Series: The Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries
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This edition offers a detailed commentary on Book Four of Vergil's Aeneid, designed specifically for college Latin students. It provides comprehensive notes to assist with translation and understanding, while engaging readers in scholarly debate concerning the poem's literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects.
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Ideal for intermediate college Latin students and more advanced scholars seeking an accessible yet in-depth commentary on Vergil's Aeneid.

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This edition is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume is edited by a scholar of Roman epic and designed with the needs of today's college Latin students in mind. A two-volume edition of all books in the Aeneid will be derived from the series.

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This edition is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume is edited by a scholar of Roman epic and designed with the needs of today's college Latin students in mind.

A two-volume edition of all books in the Aeneid will be derived from the series. This is Book Four in the series.

Series: The Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries

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Anne Rogerson of the University of Sydney praises the commentary as a gem balancing translation aid with insightful scholarly discussion. She highlights its clarity, editorial quality, and accessibility for intermediate students, as well as its value for advanced readers interested in recent debates about Aeneid 4.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781585102280

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 September 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 1 map, halftone

Contributors:

  • Edited by Randall T. Ganiban
  • Edited by Prof. James J. O'Hara

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 226g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

James O'Hara is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid (Princeton 1990), True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (Ann Arbor 1996), and Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge 2007).

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