The Virgil Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Virgil, a poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia.

List of Entries viii List of Illustrations xxxi Contributors xxxvi Preface lxv Notes to the Reader lxviii Acknowledgments lxxi Acknowledgments for Illustrations lxxii Abbreviations lxxiii Volume I The Virgil Encyclopedia A–E 1–468 Volume II The Virgil Encyclopedia F–Pe 469–994 Volume III The Virgil Encyclopedia Ph–Z 995–1410 Stylistic Terms Appendix 1411 Timeline 1419 Index of Virgil Citations 1431 General Index 1447

The Virgil Encyclopedia represents the first comprehensive reference volume to be published in English on Publius Vergilius Maro, the classical Roman poet whose works and thoughts have been at the center of Western literary, cultural, artistic, and pedagogical traditions for more than two millennia. Through some 2,200 carefully researched entries, scholars and students alike are provided with an in-depth treatment of all aspects of Virgil’s poetry, including the Greek and Roman literary traditions that inform his three great collections, the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid. Entries also reveal the reception of Virgil’s oeuvre in literature, art, and music from the moment each work appeared and transformed the Roman literary and intellectual world. Contributors include top specialists in the literature of antiquity; as well as international scholars in medieval, Renaissance, early modern, and contemporary literary and cultural studies. The result of this unique collaborative effort is the most broad-ranging, meticulously researched, and up-to-date resource available today on a man whose imaginative works brought tears to Augustine, guided Dante through Hell, helped shape Milton’s Paradise Lost, and inspired Tennyson. The Virgil Encyclopedia provides innovative insights into a poet from the ancient world whose immeasurable influence on Western literature continues to the present day. The Virgil Encyclopedia is available in three print volumes, or in an electronic edition on Wiley Online Library: www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil.

"It should be of widespread use well beyond Classics, and would even be suitable for school libraries... The editors more than deliver on their hope to 'contribute, even in a small way, to the continuation of the Virgilian tradition by facilitating the work of those who teach and study it'" - Classical Review, Jan. 2015 “It is all here, and more; besides, I cannot see t his encyclopedia being even partially superseded for very many years, if at all, which makes it a sound investment for any library.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 October 2014) “This wide-ranging work will be invaluable to anyone interested in Virgil, although its price will make it inaccessible to many.  Summing Up:  Highly recommended.  Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.”  (Choice, 1 May 2014) "Their wish is not to provide a comprehensive, self-standing resource so much as a conduit to the 'large and vibrant field of Virgilian studies', both digital and bibliographical, their abmit 'everything of importance that enters into Virgil, that is in Virgil, and that comes out of Virgil into literature, art, and music.'" (Times Literary Supplement, January 2014)

“The Virgil Encyclopedia, edited by Richard Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski, is a very valuable aid to the study of the major Latin poet, surpassing Horace, Catullus, Ovid, and Lucretius. Both for its information and for its consistently high level of interpretation, this reference work should be of permanent use for anyone seeking to better appreciate Virgil.” -Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University “The editors have assembled a diverse and distinguished group of contributors to create a comprehensive guide to Virgil’s writings, their sources and context, and their cultural afterlife. It will be an essential resource for the study of Virgil and his reception.” -Colin McCaffrey, Classics Librarian, Yale University