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what's new at virgil.org 24 April 2006
The seventh edition of "Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance: An Online Bibliography" is now online in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF).
Please address comments to David Wilson-Okamura at david@virgil.org.
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The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. If you are looking for a one-volume introduction to Virgil and Virgil scholarship, this is probably the best place to start. The scholarship is fresh (1997), the essays are well-written (each with selected bibliography), and you get a lot for your money. Available for purchase at Amazon, in Europe at Amazon UK, and at Amazon Canada.
Contents: 1. Charles Martindale, Introduction: "The classic of all Europe"; Part 1, TRANSLATION AND RECEPTION: 2. Colin Burrow, "Virgil in English translation; 3. Duncan F. Kennedy, "Modern receptions and their interpretative implications"; 4. R. J. Tarrant, "Aspects of Virgil's reception in Antiquity"; 5. Don Fowler, "The Virgil commentary of Servius"; 6. Colin Burrow, "Virgils, from Dante to Milton"; 7. M. J. H. Liversidge, "Virgil in art"; Part 2, GENRE AND POETIC CAREER: 8. Charles Martindale, "Green politics: the Eclogues"; 9. William Batstone, "Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics"; 10. Duncan F. Kennedy, "Virgilian epic"; 11. Elena Theodorakopoulos, "Closure: the Book of Virgil"; Part 3, CONTEXTS OF PRODUCTION: 12. R. J. Tarrant, "Poetry and power: Virgil's poetry in contemporary "; 13. James E. G. Zetzel, "Rome and its traditions"; 14. Susanna Morton Braund, "Virgil and the cosmos: religious and philosophical ideas"; 15. Joseph Farrell, "The Virgilian intertext"; Part 4, CONTENTS AND FORMS: 16. James O'Hara, "Virgil's style"; 17. Don Fowler, "Virgilian narrative: (a) Storytelling"; Alessandro Barchiesi, "Virgilian narrative: (b) Ecphrasis"; 18. Andrew Laird, "Approaching characterization in Virgil"; 19. Ellen Oliensis, "Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry"; 20. Philip Hardie, "Virgil and tragedy"; 21. Fiona Cox, "Envoi: The Death of Virgil"; Dateline; Works cited; Index.
