Conington's Virgil: Aeneid I - II

• Available for the first time in affordable paperbacks • New up-to-date introductions, setting Conington’s commentary in its context and providing fresh bibliographies for the poems • Part of the Classic Editions series, which reissues key annotated editions with introductions for modern experts working on the texts

John Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets.This volume includes Conington’s general introduction to Virgil, his introduction to the Aeneid, his introduction to Books I –VI, Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary to Books I–II.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 includes Conington’s general introduction to Virgil, his introduction to the Aeneid, his introduction to Books I –VI, Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary to Books I–II. It also includes Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington, along with Anne Rogerson’s introduction to Conington’s Aeneid.