ISBN: 1853992445 9781853992445

Category: Foreign Language Study / Latin

Page count: 160

<p>This<br> edition, originally published in 1953 in the admirable Methuen Classical<br> Texts series, has been maintained in print by Bradda Books. This longevity is<br> deserved; for it remains a very fine edition, manageable at different levels<br> of attainment. Maguinness had chiefly in mind students at sixth-form or early<br> university level but, for the benefit of less practised students taking GCSE<br> or in their second year of Latin bugun at University, he wisely included a<br> Vocabulary (marked with syllable lengths to tie in with his very useful<br> section on scansion and reading aloud) and a considerable amount of fairly<br> elementary linguistic matter in the Notes. The Introduction gives an outline<br> of the background knowledge needed by a beginner in Virgilian studies. For a<br> succinct and always level-headed approach to the "Aeneid", this remains a splendid edition - one for which more advanced<br> Virgilians still have every reason to be thankful; and Book XII gives an<br> excellent flavour of the whole epic and the meaning of its constantly<br> enigmatic closure.</p>