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Fratantuono and Smith provide the first detailed consideration of Book 5 of Virgil's Aeneid, with introduction, critical text, translation and commentary.

Virgil’s Aeneid 5 has long been among the more neglected sections of the poet’s epic of Augustan Rome. Book 5 opens the second movement of the poem, the mid

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

These books are intended to make Virgil's Latin accessible even to those with a fairly rudimentary knowledge of the language. There is a departure here from the

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi