Table Of Contents:

List of illustrations x(3)
List of contributors xiii(4)
Preface xvii

1 Introduction: `The classic of all Europe' 1(18)

CHARLES MARTINDALE
Part I: Translation and reception 19(86)

2 Virgil in English translation 21(17)

COLIN BURROW

3 Modern receptions and their interpretative implications 38(18)

DUNCAN F. KENNEDY

4 Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity 56(17)

R. J. TARRANT

5 The Virgil commentary of Servius 73(6)

DON FOWLER

6 Virgils, from Dante to Milton 79(12)

COLIN BURROW

7 Virgil in art 91(14)

M. J. H. LIVERSIDGE
Part 2: Genre and poetic career 105(62)

8 Green politics: the Eclogues 107(18)

CHARLES MARTINDALE

9 Virgilian didaxis: value and meaning in the Georgics 125(20)

WILLIAM BATSTONE

10 Virgilian epic 145(10)

DUNCAN F. KENNEDY

11 Closure: the Book of Virgil 155(12)

ELENA THEODORAKOPOULOS
Part 3: Contexts of production 167(72)

12 Poetry and power: Virgil's poetry in contemporary context 169(19)

R. J. TARRANT

13 Rome and its traditions 188(16)

JAMES E. G. ZETZEL

14 Virgil and the cosmos: religious and philosophical ideas 204(18)

SUSANNA MORTON BRAUND

15 The Virgilian intertext 222(17)

JOSEPH FARRELL
Part 4: Contents and forms 239(98)

16 Virgil's style 241(18)

JAMES J. O'HARA

17 Virgilian narrative 259(23)

(a) Story-telling 259(12)

DON FOWLER

(b) Ecphrasis 271(11)

ALESSANDRO BARCHIESI

18 Approaching characterisation in Virgil 282(12)

ANDREW LAIRD

19 Sons and lovers: sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry 294(18)

ELLEN OLIENSIS

20 Virgil and tragedy 312(15)

PHILIP HARDIE

21 Envoi: the death of Virgil 327(10)

FIONA COX
Dateline 337(3)

Genevieve Liveley
List of works cited 340(19)
Index 359