Preface
Introduction
1. Vergil's poetic career, life, and times
Life and times
The Eclogues
The Georgics
2. The Aeneid: a synopsis
3. Intertexts and influences: Homer
Tragedy
Hellenistic poetry
Latin poetry
4. Style
5. Context and themes
6. Metre, scansion, and versification
7. Text and transmission
8. Glossary
Maps
1. The voyage of Aeneas
2. The Aegean Sea
3. The Ionian Sea: Western Greece and South Italy
4. Sicily
Aeneid 3: Text
Aeneid 3: Commentary
Appendix of Major Intertexts
Bibliography
Index
Index of passages cited and scanned
Index of Latin words
Stephen Heyworth has been Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics at
Wadham College, Oxford, since 1988, and has regularly read through
Aeneid 3 in classes with his undergraduates. In 2007 he issued a
radical new edition of Propertius in the Oxford Classical Texts
series together with a detailed textual commentary entitled
Cynthia, and subsequently published a literary and grammatical
commentary on Book 3 with OUP in collaboration with James
Morwood.
He has also published on Catullus, Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, and
has particular interests in the Callimachean tradition in Latin
poetry and issues of poem division, politics, topography, and
genre. His main focus is
currently on Ovid's Fasti: he is writing a commentary on Book 3, to
be published by Cambridge University Press, and is studying the
manuscript tradition as he moves towards an edition of the whole
poem for the Oxford Classical Texts series. James Morwood was Head
of Classics at Harrow School from 1979 until 1996 before becoming
Grocyn Lecturer at the University of Oxford, responsible for the
Greek and Latin language teaching in the Classics Faculty. He has
long played an important part
in the support systems for Classics in schools: in particular he
has been President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers
and the London Association of Classical Teachers and is about to
become editor
of ad fam, the journal of Classics for All. As well as co-authoring
A Commentary on Propertius, Book 3 with Stephen Heyworth, he has
produced Greek and Latin Grammars and a Latin dictionary for OUP as
the co-author of the Oxford Latin Course. His academic work has
centred on Greek tragedy and Augustan poetry.
this is the work of two first-rate Latinists offering excellent
help for dealing with the Latin, the narrative, and the historical
and especially literary contexts of Aeneid 3. It would be a fine
choice to order for anyone teaching Vergil to undergraduates, and
will be useful as well to teachers and scholars of all levels.
*James J. O'Hara, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), Gnomon: Kritische
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft*
Heyworth and Morwood supply a useful context for reading Aeneas'
account of Trojan wanderings as one focused on misdirection, but
also glancing toward a future in Hesperia. Such interpretive
emphasis demonstrates a degree of unity within the book, leaving
readers of Vergil at all levels with an immensely useful
resource.
*Hunter H. Gardner, CJ-Online d*
will certainly not be replaced for many years
*Colin Leach,Classics for All*
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