The sixth book of Virgil Finlay

This chapter, which deals with the reception of Virgil in the Chinese world, takes us into the realm of ‘other Virgils’. This is a very different universe, neither conditioned nor ...

The Turkish reception of Virgil has a colourful history that started mainly during the decline of the multi-ethnic Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century. This may seem typi...

Propertius’ second book ended with a glimpse of the Aeneid as a work-in-progress. That passage sets the stage for the strange prominence of Ennius in the third book. Propertius did...

This chapter stands apart from the rest, since it discusses the translations of Virgil into Esperanto, an artificial international language invented in 1887 by Ludwig Zamenhof, a J...

Abstract Count Marcellinus and his Chronicle constitutes the first comprehensive study of Marcellinus, a courtier of the emperor Justinian, and his chronicle coverin...

This is the second edition of Virgil's works by the German classical philologist Otto Ribbeck, published in Leipzig in 1894–1895. It is solely a work of textual criticism, in which...

The focus of this chapter is the major American verse translations published in the last fifty years. These translations were inevitably framed by Virgil’s attitude to empire, sinc...