Description
Book SynopsisJohn 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 contains Virgil’s text of the Georgics; Conington’s introduction to and commentary on the Georgics; Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington; Monica Gale’s introduction to the Georgics, and also includes Conington’s index.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE
- Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE
- Introduction to the Georgics MONICA GALE
- Bibliography MONICA GALE
- From The Works of Virgil Volume I
- Preface to Volume I (fifth edition)
- Preface to Volume I (second edition)
- Introduction to the Georgics
- GEORGICS (Text and Commentary)
- On the later Didactic poets of Rome
- Index
