Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's GuideISBN: 978-1-4051-5972-2
Hardcover
168 pages
May 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Guides readers through the complexity of Virgil’s poetic
style and imagery
- All extracts are translated, with original Latin given when
necessary
- Provides useful historical and social context in which to
understand the poem as it was viewed in its time
- Includes short introductions to important topics such as Roman
religion and the Roman concept of ‘character’
- Features a helpful appendix which clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter