See also... Basic Virgil Paperbacks Suggested readings. If you're new to Virgil, or you're more interested in modern interpretations of Virgil's poetry, you might want to bookmark this site for later and visit Basic Virgil Paperbacks instead. There you'll find a short list of books suitable for non-specialists, with descriptions and cover photos for each title. See also Shirley Werner's Bibliographical Guide to Vergil's Aeneid

Introduction

Feel free to distribute the bibliography as widely as you like: I ask only that you give credit where credit is due (see below), and that you don't sell it.

This bibliography is not exhaustive. It contains, moreover, many items that I have not handled in person. As a result, there are some entries that are incomplete (lacking, for instance, the name of a series or publisher). There are also, in all likelihood, some simple errors of transcription. If you find errors or lacunae, please send them to david@virgil.org.

Other good sources for information include the Mantovano mailing list (an online discussion group devoted to Virgil's works and their reception), my own virgil.org collection of Virgil resources, as well as Vergil's Home Page. In print, see the excellent bibliographies by Suerbaum et al. in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 2:31.1,2 (1981), as well as the bibliographies that appear annually in Vergilius. (Some of these last are also online.) Online, see also Shirley Werner's Bibliographical Guide to Vergil's Aeneid and Ross Scaife's Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, which features a searchable bibliography.

Special thanks are due to Otfried Lieberknecht,^Li Helen Conrad-O'Briain,^Co and Gert de Ceukelaire,^Ce who graciously contributed many of the items included here to the Mantovano discussion group.

- David Wilson-Okamura