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Keith Maclennan was Head of Classics at Rugby School, UK. Klappentext This pivotal book of the "Aeneid" has Aeneas - like Odysseus in "Odyssey XI" - visiting the Underworld. This edition includes an introduction, annotation to explain language and content, and a comprehensive vocabulary.This edition of the Aeneid , where Aeneas visits the underworld, includes an introduction, annotation to explain language and content, and a comprehensive vocabulary.This pivotal book of the Aeneid has Aeneas - like Odysseus in Odyssey XI - visiting the Underworld. He is poised, as it were, between the world of his 'Homeric' past, the wanderings he has undergone in the poem's first half, and the destiny mapped out for his descendants, which culminates in the age of Augustus and his lost successor Marcellus. Aeneas is at once a figure of past, present and future. This edition replaces the long-serving edition by Gould & Whiteley, making the book more accessible to today's students and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. It includes an introduction, annotation to explain language and content, and a comprehensive vocabulary.PrefaceIntroduction1. Historical background2. Virgil's life and writings3. Virgil and his predecessors4. The Aeneid as a poem5. Summary of the Aeneid 6. The Sixth Book7. Metre8. Virgil's use of metre and language9. Metre and syntax10. Metrical raritiesSome readingNotesAeneid VI: The Latin TextNotes on the TextAppendix: Virgil, Ennius, LucretiusIndex 1: Literary, grammatical and metrical termsIndex 2: Names in the textIndex 3: Other namesVocabularyAbbreviations
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Keith Maclennan was Head of Classics at Rugby School, UK, and was editor of books I, IV and VI of Virgil's Aeneid, also published by Bloomsbury. He was also author of Horace, a Poet for a New Age (2010), and co-editor of Plautus' Aulularia (2016).Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC) was born in the north of Italy and completed his education in Rome. Generally considered Rome's greatest poet, he wrote Eclogues, 37 BC, and Georgics, 29 BC. He then devoted the rest of his life to the composition of his greatest work, the epic poem the Aeneid.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70-19 BC) was born in the north of Italy and completed his education in Rome. Generally considered Rome's greatest poet, he wrote Eclogues, 37 BC, and Georgics, 29 BC. He then devoted the rest of his life to the composition of his greatest work, the epic poem the Aeneid.Keith Maclennan was Head of Classics at Rugby School, UK, and was editor of books I, IV and VI of Virgil's Aeneid, also published by Bloomsbury. He was also author of Horace, a Poet for a New Age (2010), and co-editor of Plautus' Aulularia (2016).
