
Conington's Virgil: Georgics
John Conington(Editor)
Bristol Phoenix Press
Published on 18. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-904675-22-8 (ISBN)
Description
John Conington's three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington's Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington's commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil's Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader.
This volume contains Virgil's text of the Georgics; Conington's introduction to and commentary on the Georgics; Philip Hardie's general assessment of Conington; Monica Gale's introduction to the Georgics, and also includes Conington's index.
This volume contains Virgil's text of the Georgics; Conington's introduction to and commentary on the Georgics; Philip Hardie's general assessment of Conington; Monica Gale's introduction to the Georgics, and also includes Conington's index.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Liverpool University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904675-22-8 (9781904675228)
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Persons
John Conington was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin in Oxford. Philip Hardie is a Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), Virgil's Epic Successors (1993) and Ovid's Poetics of Illusion (2002). Brian W. Breed is Assistant Professor of Classics in the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; he is author of articles on Virgil's Eclogues, Propertius, Horace and Homer. Monica Gale is Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin; she is author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (1994), Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000), and articles on Lucretius, Virgil and Propertius. Anne Rogerson has her doctorate on the Aeneid from the University of Cambridge and is author of several articles on the epic; she is Wrigley Fellow and College Lecturer in Classics at Cambridge.
Editor
Introduction
Department of Classics, Trinity College (Ireland)
Content
Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE
Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE
Introduction to the Georgics MONICA GALE
Bibliography MONICA GALE
From The Works of Virgil Volume I
Preface to Volume I (fifth edition)
Preface to Volume I (second edition)
Introduction to the Georgics
GEORGICS (Text and Commentary)
On the later Didactic poets of Rome
Index
Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE
Introduction to the Georgics MONICA GALE
Bibliography MONICA GALE
From The Works of Virgil Volume I
Preface to Volume I (fifth edition)
Preface to Volume I (second edition)
Introduction to the Georgics
GEORGICS (Text and Commentary)
On the later Didactic poets of Rome
Index