Aeneid: Book 3

"This commentary combines grammatical assistance with analysis of the text in ways which make reading easier and encourage interpretation. It also introduces current debates in Virgilian scholarship clearly and helpfully, and promotes and provides guidance for further reading. Perkell has provided valuable support for those wishing to teach Aeneid 3 at an intermediate level, and I look forward to the other volumes in this series."
     —Anne Rogerson, University of Sydney, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Vergil
Edited by Christine Perkell

2009 - 188 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: The Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries

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Paper 978-1-58510-227-3
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$3.00

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Aeneid: Book 3, part of the the Focus Vergil Aeneid commentaries series, includes an introduction, Latin-language text, commentary, and other student materials. It is designed for the intermediate Latin-language student in upper division courses teaching the Aeneid in departments of Classics or Latin Language.

 

Reviews:

"This commentary combines grammatical assistance with analysis of the text in ways which make reading easier and encourage interpretation. It also introduces current debates in Virgilian scholarship clearly and helpfully, and promotes and provides guidance for further reading. Perkell has provided valuable support for those wishing to teach Aeneid 3 at an intermediate level, and I look forward to the other volumes in this series."
     —Anne Rogerson, University of Sydney, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review


"The new Vergil commentaries from Focus are an exciting resource for almost anyone reading the Aeneid in Latin. . . . The editors recognize that developing core reading skills and involving students in the interpretive questions raised by the poem are not separate objectives. This recognition has resulted in commentaries that enticingly present basic information in a wider setting of observation and enquiry. . . . All in all, the Focus series balances simplicity and subtlety, reminding students at all levels that increasing technical precision and stretching one's interpretive curiosity are—fundamentally—one endeavor."
     —Antonia Syson, Purdue University, in Teaching Classical Languages (CAMWS)


About the Authors:

Christine Perkell (Ph.D. Harvard) is Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the editor of Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide and author of The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Vergil's Georgics as well as of articles on various aspects of Vergil's poetics and of lamentation in epic poetry.