Virgil, Aeneid 5: Text, Translation and Commentary

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30124-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Latin, Band 386, 762 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1315 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

Virgil’s Aeneid 5 has long been among the more neglected sections of the poet’s epic of Augustan Rome. Book 5 opens the second movement of the poem, the middle section of the Aeneid that sees the Trojans poised between the old world of Phrygia and the new destiny in Italy. The present volume fills a significant gap in Virgilian studies by offering the first full-scale commentary in any language on this key book in the explication of the poet’s grand consideration of the meaning of Trojan versus Roman identity. A new critical text (based on first hand examination of the manuscripts) is accompanied by a prose translation and detailed commentary. The notes provide in depth analysis of literary, historical, and lexical matters; the introduction situates Book 5 both in the context of the epic and the larger tradition of heroic poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fratantuono, Lee M.

Smith, R. Alden

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Lateinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Bibliography
Ad Lectorem
Critical Text
Translation
Commentary

Index Nominum
Index Rerum
Index Verborum

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Fratantuono (AB Holy Cross, AM Boston College, PhD Fordham) is Professor of Classics at Ohio Wesleyan University. He works principally on Latin epic (especially Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan), and has published widely on Latin epic, elegiac, and lyric poetry.

R. A. Smith (PhD, Pennsylvania, 1990), Professor of Classics at Baylor University, has written many articles and books on Augustan poetry, including The Primacy of Vision in Virgil’s Aeneid (Texas, 2005).