Virgil, Aeneid 2

A Commentary
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16988-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 299, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This is Nicholas Horsfall's fourth commentary on a book of the 'Aeneid' and in scale and approach follows closely the earlier volumes.It is aimed at the scholarly public and is not intended as a replacement for Austin's admirable school and undergraduate commentary of 1964. But so splendid an ancient text requires fresh scholarly instruments and this commentary discusses fully the acutely controversial Helen-episode (spurious), matters of linguistic and textual interpretation,, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. Full attention is given to matters military and historiographical. New critical approaches and recent developments have been taken into account, with more attention to their spirit than to their language. A text, with translation, and three indices are included.

Zielgruppe

All who are interested in classical literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horsfall, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

Horsfall, Nicholas
Nicholas Horsfall (DPhil. Oxon. 1971) taught for sixteen years at University College London and has been a private scholar for rather longer. He lives in Wester Ross and this is his sixth book on Virgil.