The Cambridge Companion to Virgil »

Seventeen essays from an internationally distinguished team of scholars.

List of illustrations; Preface;

1. Introduction: 'The classic of all Europe' Charles Martindale;

Part I. Translation and Reception:
2. Virgil in English translation Colin Burrow;
3. Modern receptions and their interpretative implications Duncan F. Kennedy;
4. Aspects of Virgil's reception in Antiquity R. J. Tarrant;
5. The Virgil commentary of Servius Don Fowler;
6. Virgils, from Dante to Milton Colin Burrow;
7. Virgil in art M. J. H. Liversidge;

Part II. Genre and Poetic Career:
8. Green politics: the Eclogues Charles Martindale;
9. Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics William Batstone;
10. Virgilian epic Duncan F. Kennedy;
11. Closure: the Book of Virgil Elena Theodorakopoulos;

Part III. Contexts of Production:
12. Poetry and power: Virgil's poetry in contemporary context R. J. Tarrant;
13. Rome and its traditions James E. G. Zetzel;
14. Virgil and the cosmos: religious and philosophical ideas Susanna Morton Braund;
15. The Virgilian intertext Joseph Farrell;

Part IV. Contents and Forms:
16. Virgil's style James J. O'Hara;
17. Virgilian narrative: (a) Storytelling Don Fowler; (b) Ecphrasis Alessandro Barchiesi;
18. Approaching characterisation in Virgil Andrew Laird;
19. Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry Ellen Oliensis;
20. Virgil and tragedy Philip Hardie;
21. Envoi: the death of Virgil Fiona Cox; Dateline; Index.