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Virgil: Aeneid XII (New ed)

VirgilMaguinness, W.S.(Volume editor)
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This edition, originally published in 1953 in the admirable Methuen Classical Texts series, has been in print ever since.

It's longevity is deserved; for it remains a very fine edition, manageable at different levels of attainment.

Maguinness had chiefly in mind students at sixth-form or early university level but, for the benefit of less practised students taking GCSE or in their second year of Latin bugun at University, he wisely included a Vocabulary (marked with syllable lengths to tie in with his very useful section on scansion and reading aloud) and a considerable amount of fairly elementary linguistic matter in the Notes.

The Introduction gives an outline of the background knowledge needed by a beginner in Virgilian studies.

For a succinct and always level-headed approach to the "Aeneid", this remains a splendid edition - one for which more advanced Virgilians still have every reason to be thankful; and Book XII gives an excellent flavour of the whole epic and the meaning of its constantly enigmatic closure.

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Bristol Classical Press
1853992445 / 9781853992445
Paperback / softback
873.01
01/01/1998
United Kingdom
Latin
160 pages
129 x 198 mm, 170 grams