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Vergil: Aeneid, Book I |
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Vergil: Aeneid, Book I 2009 • 978-1-58510-225-9 • paper • 170 pages • 6 x 9 • $15.95 Book one in a series of six commentaries that will cover the first half of the Aeneid. Designed for the intermediate Latin-language student it includes an introduction, Latin-language text, commentary, and other student materials. . | About the Authors | Table of Contents | Preface | Review |
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Description This book is part of a new series that will eventually encompass all twelve books of Virgil's Aeneid in single volumes with newly edited text, notes, and commentary. Books I-VI will be collected into a single volume as will Books VII to XII.
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Randall Ganiban is an associate professor of Classics at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he has taught since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University and his BA in Latin from Yale University. He specializes in Roman epic and is overseeing a series of commentaries on the Aeneid for Focus.
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Table
of Contents
Preface
Introduction to Vergil’s Aeneid
Vergil’s lifetime and poetry
Vergil and his predecessors
The Aeneid, Rome, and Augustus
Book 1 within the context of the Aeneid
Structure and major themes of Aeneid 1
Map
Latin text and Commentary
Appendix A: Vergil’s Meter
Appendix B: Stylistic Terms
Works Cited
Vocabulary Index
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This volume is an introductory commentary on Aeneid 1 for use at the intermediate level or higher. It provides a generous amount of basic information about grammar and syntax so that students of varying experience will have what they need to translate the Latin. At the same time, it addresses issues of interpretation and style so that students at all levels will have a richer experience of the poem. Finally, it includes extensive bibliographic notes that will help readers pursue areas of special interest. I hope that this combination of information will offer a useful alternative to other student editions (often targeting the secondary school level), and will be particularly suited to intermediate (and perhaps even more advanced)Latin students at today’s colleges and universities, who may benefit from an edition that helps them understand the Latin but also gives them a fuller experience of Vergil’s style, themes, and the types of questions explored in contemporary Vergilian criticism. This commentary takes as its starting point the still valuable school edition of Aeneid 1 by T. E. Page (1892), reprinted without vocabulary in his Virgil: Aeneid 1-6 (1894). Page’s notes have been pared down, revised, updated, or omitted, while new notes and introductory material have been added throughout. In addition, the general introduction, bibliography, appendices on meter and style, and general index are all new. In adapting Page’s vocabulary, some definitions have been altered, and various changes made in the formatting and the presentation of word listings. I have also consulted a wide range of commentaries on book 1; those by Conington, Conway, Austin, and Williams were particularly helpful. The Latin text used here is that of F. A. Hirtzel (Oxford, 1900) with the following differences in readings: 1.1a-d omitted; 2 Laviniaque for Lavinaque, 224 despiciens for dispiciens, 455 inter for intra, 599 exhaustos for exhaustis, and 708 pictis for pictis. (i.e. the period has been omitted). This edition places the Latin and commentary on the same page. A complete Latin text of Aeneid 1, however, may also be desirable for individual study or for use within the classroom, and has therefore been made available for download on the publisher’s website. Please go to www.pullins.com for it as well as for information and updates on this volume and other Aeneid commentaries in the same series.
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