Conington's Virgil: Aeneid VII - IX (Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904675255 ISBN 13: 9781904675259

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 of the Aeneid Books VII-IX and Conington's commentary on Books VII-IX; Conington's introduction to Books VII-XII. It also includes Philip Hardie's general assessment of Conington and Anne Rogerson's introduction to Conington's Aeneid.

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About the Author

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). 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1904675255
• ISBN 13: 9781904675259
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Conington John