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This commentary was begun in 1967, but most of the period from 1971 to 1996 was spent on work that was in some sense an essential preliminary to a detailed study of
Aeneid 7. The work will serve as a guide to recent (and future) work on Virgilian language, grammar, syntax and style. Recent approaches to the text have been, where possible, taken into account, with sympathy but without jargon. Virgil's sources, in verse and prose, have been studied with special care and the commentary presents a coherent approach to Virgil's view of Italian religion, antiquities and topography. Unusually full indexing is intended to further the book's use as a guide to many aspects of Augustan poetic idiom.
There is a text independent of recent editions and a precise, prose translation.
There is a text independent of recent editions and a precise, prose translation.
Nicholas Horsfall, D.Phil. (1971), Oxon, taught at the University of London (1971-1987), and now lives in Rome. This is his eighth book (and third on Virgil).
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This is a commentator who loves his author for better or for worse, even when the poet is at his most enigmatic.'
Elaine Fantham, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2001.
‘ A trove of information, observations and judgement that will obviously prove to be a major contribution to Vergilian studies’ Joseph Farrell Vergilius
‘ A work quite matchless among literary studies of Vergil for the wealth of direct information and updated reference to archaeology and topography’ Alessandro Barchiesi, Classical world
‘ Extremely rich and erudite, but also exceptionally wide in the diversity of approaches to the text’ Amiel Vardi, Scripta classica israelica
Elaine Fantham, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2001.
‘ A trove of information, observations and judgement that will obviously prove to be a major contribution to Vergilian studies’ Joseph Farrell Vergilius
‘ A work quite matchless among literary studies of Vergil for the wealth of direct information and updated reference to archaeology and topography’ Alessandro Barchiesi, Classical world
‘ Extremely rich and erudite, but also exceptionally wide in the diversity of approaches to the text’ Amiel Vardi, Scripta classica israelica
Scholars, university libraries and anyone working on Virgil at graduate level of above.