A radical new edition of the Augustan poet Propertius, based on the latest research into the manuscript tradition. The English preface contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read.
In its clear exposition of technical problems, Cynthia will serve as an introduction to Latin textual criticism in the modern age, and to elegiac poetic style.
This is fully explained in the English preface, which also contains important comments on the way texts are edited and read. Some significant emendations discovered in the papers of A. E. Housman are published here for the first time.
This new edition of Vergil's Aeneid, Book 3, comprises a lucid introduction setting the poem in its literary and historical context, a detailed commentary offering generous help on linguistic details as well as translations of all cited ...