The Virgil Encyclopedia, 3 Volume Set

by Thomas, Richard F.; Ziolkowski, Jan M.

• ISBN13: 9781405154987
• ISBN10: 1405154985
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is the first comprehensive English langage reference volume on Virgil, a poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.

• Complements existing Virgil works by providing readers of all levels an approachable point of entry intry into further Virgil studies
• Offers in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil’s poetry, including the Greek and Roman literary traditions that inform his three great collections, the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, and the reception of Virgil's oeuvre in literature, art, and music down through the ages
• Brings together over 350 contributors who are leading scholars in various periods of literary and cultural studies
• Comprises over 2,200 entries organized in A-Z format

Winner of the 2017 Alexander G. McKay Book Prize for the best book in Vergilian studies bestowed by The Vergilian Society. 

Also available on Wiley Online Library. For sample content and information on online access, visit www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil. 

Author Biography

Richard F. Thomas is George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. His books include Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The Ethnographical Tradition (1982), a two-volume commentary on Virgil’s Georgics (1988), Reading Virgil and his Texts (1999), Virgil and the Augustan Reception (2001), and a commentary on Horace, Odes 4 and Carmen Saeculare (2011).

Jan M. Ziolkowski is Director of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC, and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University. His books include Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Songs in the Early Middle Ages (2007); Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (2007); The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, co-edited with Michael C. J. Putnam (2008); and Solomon and Marcolf (2008).

Table of Contents

List of Entries viii

List of Illustrations xxxi

Contributors xxxvi

Preface lxv

Notes to the Reader lxviii

Acknowledgments lxxi

Acknowledgments for Illustrations lxxii

Abbreviations lxxiii

Volume I The Virgil Encyclopedia A–E 1–468

Volume II The Virgil Encyclopedia F–Pe 469–994

Volume III The Virgil Encyclopedia Ph–Z 995–1410

Stylistic Terms Appendix 1411

Timeline 1419

Index of Virgil Citations 1431

General Index 1447