Virgil: Aeneid I

by Virgil, Keith MacLennan (Editor)

Overview

In Book I of the Aeneid, Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome.

Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's students, by setting it in its literary and historical context and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. The edition includes a full introduction which covers Virgil's life and writings, his literary predecessors, a summary of the epic poem's plot, an exploration of Rome, Carthage and Dido's role, explanation of the metre, and some notes on translating and reading the poem.

As well as the introduction, the volume contains the original Latin text, in-depth annotation to explain language and content, a glossary and a comprehensive vocabulary list.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853997167
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/22/2010
Series:	Latin Texts , #1
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Keith Maclennan was Head of Classics at Rugby School. He is the author of editions of Books IV and VI of the "Aeneid", also published by Duckworth.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction 9

1 Tantae molis erat ... 9

2 The Aeneid and Roman history 10

3 Virgil's life and writings 14

4 Virgil's predecessors 15

5 Rome, Carthage and Dido 19

6 Summary of the Aeneid 22

7 The Aeneid after Virgil 29

8 Translating Virgil 33

9 Metre 35

10 Virgil's use of metre and language 40

11 Reading Virgil 46

Some reading 52

Aeneid I The Latin Text 54

Notes on the Text 77

Index 1 Literary, grammatical and metrical terms 163

Index 2 Names etc. 164

Vocabulary 169

Abbreviations 188