Böcker av Virgil

Recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, this edition of Virgil's epic poems contains fourteen renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.

Dido, queen of Carthage, is inflamed by love for Aeneas. The goddesses Juno and Venus plot to unite them, and their 'marriage' is consummated in a cave during a hunt. However, Jupiter sends Mercury to remind Aeneas of his duty, and the hero departs despite Dido's passionate pleas. Dido commits suicide.

This text of the first book of the "Aeneid" includes a detailed commentary.

This text of the fourth book of the "Aeneid" includes a detailed commentary.

In this edition Robert Coleman describes the earlier pastoral tradition, sets Virgil's poems in historical perspective and evaluates the poet's distinctive contribution to the genre.

This text of the sixth book of the "Aeneid" includes a detailed commentary.

A sophisticated blend of "Arcadian" idyll and contemporary Roman history, Virgil's ten short pastoral poems have intrigued scholars and poets alike. This is a full-scale commentary on the "Eclogues", edited by a world expert on Latin literature.

Hailed by T.S. Eliot as 'the classic of all Europe', Virgil's Aeneid has enjoyed a unique and enduring influence on European literature, art and politics for the past two thousand years.

These two volumes provide a commentary, with text on Virgil's "Georgics" written between 35 and 29 BC. The background of the poem and its relationship to the early years of Augustan Rome are considered and a section interprets the poem in the light of recent scholarship.

This volume, the second of two companion volumes which provide a detailed commentary, with text, on the whole of Virgil's Georgics, is devoted to Books III and IV of the poem. Professor Thomas describes the Georgics as 'perhaps the most difficult, certainly the most controversial, poem in Roman literature'.

Virgil (70-19 BCE) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His Aeneid is an epic on the theme of Rome's origins. Poems of the Appendix Vergiliana are traditionally, but in most cases probably wrongly, attributed to Virgil.

Aeneid Book 2

This is the first major commentary on the tenth book of Vergil's Aeneid, the national epic of Rome and one of the great poems of world literature. Vergil's text, with a facing translation, is explained for the modern reader and its literary qualities are fully assessed.

The Oxford Classical Texts, or Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis, are renowned for their reliability and presentation. The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the front of each page. There are now over 100 volumes, representing the greater part of classical Greek and Latin literature.

Virgil (70-19 BCE) was a poet of immense virtuosity and influence. His Eclogues deal with bucolic life and love, his Georgics with tillage, trees, cattle, and bees. His Aeneid is an epic on the theme of Rome's origins. Poems of the Appendix Vergiliana are traditionally, but in most cases probably wrongly, attributed to Virgil.

A eulogy to Italy as the temperate land of perpetual spring, and a celebration of the values of rustic piety, The Georgics is probably the supreme achievement of Latin poetry.

The translated extracts from Virgil: Selections from the Aeneid, are linked by commentaries which continue the narrative and discuss points in the text needing explanation.