Virgil: Aeneid VII-XII / Edition 1

by Virgil, Robert Deryck Williams

Overview

This is the second volume of R. Deryck Williams' classic edition of the Aeneid, covering books VII and XII. It includes the Latin text, with English introduction, an extensive commentary and notes by this renowned Virgilian scholar. Designed for upper school and university students, the commentary interprets the poetic methods and intentions of the Aeneid, and explains not only what Virgil says, but how he says it and why he says it in the particular way which he chooses.

The outstanding and long-lived 'red Macmillan' series of editions survived on the basis of T. E. Page's perceptive and exemplary editions of Virgil, dating from the closing decade of the nineteenth century. In the early 1970s, replacement editions were prepared by the outstanding Virgilian scholar R.D. Williams, to take account of more modern approaches to Virgil and of the needs of new generations of upper school and university students. The scale of the edition required brevity and immediate relevance to the text but Williams achieved his aim of being 'concise rather than omissive' and his notes remain an example of clarity and good sense for any student approaching the second half of the Aeneid in whole or in part.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853995002
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Latin Texts
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

R. Deryck Williams was Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK, and a leading scholar of Virgil; he published numerous articles and commentaries on his work.

Table of Contents

Author's Note
Preface
Introduction
1. Life and works of Virgil
2. Virgil and Augustus
3. The legend of Aeneas
4. Sources of the Aeneid
5. Synopsis of the Aeneid
6. Structure and themes
7. Virgil's hexameter
8. The manuscripts of the Aeneid and the ancient commentators
9. Differences of text between this edition and Mynors and Hirtzel
10. Bibliography
Text
Commentary
Index to the notes