The UK Classics Department

Various interesting things to explore:

• http://virgil.org/, including
  • The Life of Vergil

• The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy (includes Vergil)
• The Vergil Page: all sorts of resources under development here, including
  • General characteristics of Vergil's dactylic hexameter
  • An online critical edition of the Aeneid
  • The first lines of the poem
  • Index of Images From Vergil MSS Vat. lat. 3225 and 3867, e.g.
    • Aeneas and Dido in the cave
    • Dido sacrificing
    • Dido reproaches Aeneas
    • Dido observes Aeneas' departure from Carthage
    • Dido on her funeral pyre
    • Death of Dido, lament
  • Latin prose paraphrase of Aeneid 1
  • Seruii Grammatici in Vergilii carmina commentarii
  • A commentary by John Conington and Henry Nettleship revised by F. Haverfield (1858-1898)

• An outline of the Aeneid

• Roger Dunkle's Study Guide to the Aeneid (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)

• Summaries followed by paraphrases in Latin of Book 1 and Book 4 (these paraphrases can be very helpful in shedding a new light on a tricky passage)

• Near the beginning of Book 4, Dido addresses her pudor. Learn more about the Roman understanding of this word by reading Robert A. Kaster, "The Shame of the Romans" (1996 APA Presidential Address)

• Vergil's Dido: A Multimedia Path (Mark Morford et al.)

• Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" (Music composed by Henry Purcell, and Libretto by Nahum Tate; Date of composition: 1689; "An opera perform'd at Mr. Josias Priest's Boarding School at Chelsey by Young Gentlewomen.')

• Horace's Cleopatra Ode

• Another Literary Portrait of Cleopatra (from Plutarch's Life of Marc Antony)

• A hypertext concordance to Aeneid 4

• John Dryden's translation of the Aeneid from the Tech Classics archive

• A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples

• Tools of the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature, by Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner

• Major temples and sanctuaries in the Roman homeland

The UK Classics Department

This page last changed by Ross Scaife on Monday, May 10, 2004