Selections from Virgil's Aeneid
Subtitle: A Student Reader
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781472575708
Subjects: Classical philology
Description: "This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted questions. The book can be used as a source of one-off unseen passages or as a reader for students working through individual books or the whole poem. The commentary notes explain references to characters, places and events, provide linguistic and grammatical help on more challenging Latin phrases, and point out stylistic features. The questions test students' comprehension of the characters and storyline, and give them practice in handling literary terms. The passages are linked by summaries of the continuing plot, so students can grasp the progression of the poem as a whole. An in-depth introduction sets the story of the Aeneid in its mythological, literary and historical context, and at the end of the book is a complete alphabetical vocabulary list, a glossary of literary devices, and essays explaining the principles of Virgil's word order and metre"--