Vergil: Aeneid 10

by Virgil; Harrison, S. J.

• ISBN13: 9780198150961
• ISBN10: 0198150962
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-19
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Vergil's Aeneid was written in twelve books in the last years of the poet's life (29-19 BC). It was designed as a national epic of Rome and is one of the greatest poems of world literature. The tenth book, which contains some of the poem's most dramatic war-narrative, has been unjustlyneglected by Vergilian scholars, and this is the first major commentary to deal exclusively with it. Its aim is to explain Vergil's text for the modern reader. A full introduction examines the literary aspects of Aeneid 10; the scholarly commentary assesses Vergil's skill as a Latin poet and hiscareful and original use of literary models (especially the Iliad of Homer). There is also some discussion of the major interpretational problems of the Aeneid raised in Book 10. The Latin text is reproduced from R.A.B. Mynors's edition in the Oxford Classical Texts series. A facing Englishtranslation makes the text accessible to those with no knowledge of Latin.

Table of Contents

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Texts of and Commentaries on the Aeneid	xi
Short Titles and Abbreviations	xii
INTRODUCTION
Literary Aspects of Aeneid 10	xxi
The Text and its History	xxxiv
Note on Text and Translation	1	(1)
Latercvlvs Notarvm	2	(1)
Sigla Codicvm	3	(1)
Text and Translation	4	(53)
Commentary	57	(246)
APPENDIX: SOME ASPECTS OF VERGILIAN STYLE
A. Use of Non-Epic Styles	285	(1)
B. Levels of Vocabulary	286	(2)
C. Word-Order and Sense	288	(1)
D. The `Greek' Accusative	289	(3)
INDEXES
Index Nominum	292	(3)
Index Rerum	295	(4)
Index Verborum	299	(4)
ADDENDA	303