Bøker av S. J. (Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics Heyworth

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 Latin and Greek, and an extensive Appendix illustrating the poet's rich variety of literary models.

An edition of the most wide-ranging and entertaining of the books of the Latin love poet Propertius. A lucid and informative introduction sets the scene, and the notes, as well as offering a detailed and stimulating commentary, give a substantial amount of linguistic help to ensure that the poems are approachable.

A lucid new commentary on the Latin poet Propertius, consisting of a commentary on the whole corpus and a prose translation which includes alternative versions of ambiguous phrasing. 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.