The Loeb Classical Library: Aeneid, Books 7–12. Appendix Vergiliana

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The Loeb Classical Library: Aeneid, Books 7–12. Appendix VergilianaVirgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) was born in 70 BC near Mantua and was educated at Cremona, Milan, and Rome. Slow in speech, shy in manner, thoughtful in mind, weak in health, he went back north for a quiet life. Influenced by the group of poets there, he may have written some of the doubtful poems included in our Virgilian manuscripts. All his undoubted extant work is written in his perfect hexameters. Earliest comes the collection of ten pleasingly

Russell also provides unusually rich explanatory notes

whilst most often known for enacting vicious

There are appendices on metre and the text

Except for marrying you and having our beautiful children

While tied to the thinking of the day

this edition includes a new translation of the Greater Chronicle

Virgil and Ovid

The attempted coup culminated with the unmasking of the conspirators in the Senate

She writes in such a beautiful way and her characters have depth and credibility

and the notes offer a close study of Terence's language in comparison with that of his predecessor Plautus

μιας οικογένειας με πέντε κόρες που αναζητούν την ευτυχία σ' έναν καλό γάμο

when Demosthenes accused him again in a speech