A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship.

• Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history
• Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars
• Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship

Author: Joseph Farrell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781118785126

About the Author

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), and Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001).

Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)