Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm
Reihe: Trends in Classics – Scholarship in the Making
ISBN: 978-3-11-076781-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
This volume collects twenty-six papers from a conference held at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in June 2021. The essays cover a wide chronological span from the Renaissance to present day, and address the topic of Virgil’s commentaries from a variety of points of view. Some papers are devoted to the study of single commentators, both well-known, such as La Cerda, Heyne, and Conington, and more marginal to the canon, such as Nannius, Willichius, and Keightley. Wide-ranging themes encompassed by other papers include metamorphosis, Egypt and Africa, and the rediscovey of Homer in early modern commentaries. Also considered are the different geographical and cultural areas of production, from the commentaries by Jesuit scholars to the reception of Virgil in modern Russia.
The volume will be of interest both to scholars interested in the interpretation of Virgil’s texts and to scholars of classical reception.