Main description: This critical edition of the Latin text of Vergil's Bucolica and Georgica is informed by recent research on the author's style as well as the oldest manuscript versions of his works.
Vergil's commentary on political issues is discussed after analyzing the whole of the poet's work. His political engagement - noticeable in much of his work, is clear. The new notion of the functional model, which the poet often used when making a political statement is introduc…
Working "in the shadow of Eduard Norden" in the author's own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall's fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a com…