Aeneid

Bk. 12

• Autor: Virgil
• Wydawnictwo: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Rok wydania: 1998
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Format: 127 x 203 mm
• Objętość: 162 str.
• Stan: Bardzo dobry. Nowa (książka może posiadać delikatne przytarcia oraz niewielkie zagniecenia)
• ISBN: 9781853992445

This

edition, originally published in 1953 in the admirable Methuen Classical

Texts series, has been maintained in print by Bradda Books. This longevity is

deserved; for it remains a very fine edition, manageable at different levels

of attainment. Maguinness had chiefly in mind students at sixth-form or early

university level but, for the benefit of less practised students taking GCSE

or in their second year of Latin bugun at University, he wisely included a

Vocabulary (marked with syllable lengths to tie in with his very useful

section on scansion and reading aloud) and a considerable amount of fairly

elementary linguistic matter in the Notes. The Introduction gives an outline

of the background knowledge needed by a beginner in Virgilian studies. For a

succinct and always level-headed approach to the Aeneid, this remains a splendid edition - one for which more advanced

Virgilians still have every reason to be thankful; and Book XII gives an

excellent flavour of the whole epic and the meaning of its constantly

enigmatic closure.