An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary id

This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the exami

A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.

This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in

The book aims at providing a coherent guide to the entirety of Virgil's Aeneid, with analysis of every scene and, in some cases, every line of crucial passages.