Aeneid

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This is the first major single-volume edition in English of Book IX of Virgil's Aeneid, a pivotal part of the poem that contains the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. It offers invaluable help to students of Virgil and will also be of interest to professional scholars of Latin litera…

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Title Statements

Full title :Aeneid. / Virgil ; edited by Philip Hardie.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:lat
Publication Date:1994.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (vii, 259 pages)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1341311708
LC Classification:PA6803.B29
Dewey Decimal:873/.01

Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. The place of book IX in the second half of the Aeneid -- 2. The structure of book IX -- 3. Links with other books -- 4. Reworking Homer -- 5. Cities and sieges -- solidarity and division -- 6. Young men at war -- defining the epic hero -- Trojans and Italians -- 7. Turnus -- 8. Homeric gods and Roman religion -- knowledge human and divine -- recognition -- 9. The Nisus and Euryalus episode -- P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber IX -- Commentary -- Indexes.

Subjects

Aeneas, (Legendary character) Aeneis (Vergilius) Epic poetry, Latin Latin poetry Literatura latina Poesia épica -- Roma (itália) Poésie Poésie épique latine Poetry