Vergil: Aeneid: Book 3

Description

This book is part of a new series that will eventually encompass all twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid in single volumes with newly edited text, notes, and commentary. Books I-VI will be collected into a single volume as will Books VII to XII.

Features

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

From the Preface

Aeneid 3 illuminates the traits of character and values that made possible the Roman imperial achievement. Further, through the abundance of place names, allusions to techniques of sailing, navigation, city founding, prayer and sacrifice, this book evokes a whole world of the ancient Mediterranean and the movements of its various peoples. A rich text for class purposes, Aeneid 3 invites reading and discussion of such topics as Homer and Apollonius; Roman ethnicity, culture, and religion; Augustus’ religious renewals and foreign policy; ancient accounts of travel; literary criticism (internal vs. external narrators and readers, techniques of persuasive speech), to mention only some. In sum, students whose major desideratum is help with translation will find it here; those with time also for thematics, poetics, cultural context, etc. will find that the introductions to each subsection of the Book offer much of interest to think about.

Market

Designed for the intermediate Latin-language student.  Latin language commentary, the third in a series on the Aeneid, as taught in upper division courses in departments of Classics or Latin Language.

About the Author

Christine Perkell is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She has a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University. She is the editor of Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide (Norman, OK 1999) and author of The Poet’s Truth: A Study of the Poet in Vergil’s Georgics (Berkeley 1989) as well as articles on various aspects of Vergil’s poetics and of lamentation in epic poetry.