Vergil: Aeneid: Book 4

Table of Contents

Preface, p. vii
Introduction to Vergil’s Aeneid by R. Ganiban, p. 1
Introduction to Book 4: Its Role in the Aeneid p. 13
Map p. 18
Latin Text and Commentary, p. 19
Appendix A: Vergil’s Meter, p. 95
Appendix B: Stylistic Terms, p. 101
Bibliography, p.105
List of Abbreviations, p. 116
Vocabulary, p. 117
Index, p. 149

Features

Includes an introduction, Latin-language text, commentary, and other student materials.

Market

Latin language commentary, the fourth in a series on the Aeneid, as taught in upper division courses in departments of Classics or Latin Language.

About the Author

James O’Hara is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton 1990), True Names: Vegil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay ( Ann Arbor 1996), and Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies at Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge 2007).

Randall Ganiban is an associate professor of Classics at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he has taught since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University and his BA in Latin from Yale University. He specializes in Roman epic and is overseeing a series of commentaries on the Aeneid for Focus.

Reviews

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.04.08 | Reviewed by Anne Rogerson, University of Sydney