John Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington’s Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil’s Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader. This volume includes Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary on Books III–VI, along with Conington’s index to Books I–VI. It also includes Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington and Anne Rogerson’s introduction to Conington’s Aeneid.
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John Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets.This volume includes Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary on Books III–VI, along with Conington’s index to Books I–VI.
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Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIEBibliography PHILIP HARDIEIntroduction to Conington's Aeneid ANNE ROGERSONBibliography ANNE ROGERSONFrom The Works of Virgil Volume IIPreface to Volume II (fourth edition)Preface to Volume II (second and third editions)AENEID Books III-VI (Text and Commentary)Index to Books I-VI
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• Available for the first time in affordable paperbacks • New up-to-date introductions, setting Conington’s commentary in its context and providing fresh bibliographies for the poems • Part of the Classic Editions series, which reissues key annotated editions with introductions for modern experts working on the texts
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Available for the first time in affordable paperbacks

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ISBN
9781904675242
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2008-12-19
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Bristol Phoenix Press
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216 mm
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138 mm
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UU, 05
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Engelsk
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Heftet

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John Conington was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin in Oxford. Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), Virgil’s Epic Successors (1993) and Ovid’s Poetics of Illusion (2002). Brian W. Breed is Assistant Professor of Classics in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; he is author of articles on Virgil’s Eclogues, Propertius, Horace and Homer. Monica Gale is Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin; she is author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000), and articles on Lucretius, Virgil and Propertius. Anne Rogerson has her doctorate on the Aeneid from the University of Cambridge and is author of several articles on the epic; she is Wrigley Fellow and College Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge.