The Language of Virgil: An Introduction to the Poetry of the Aeneid

by Daniel H. Garrison

A ten-week introduction to Latin via the first 207 lines of the Aeneid, this book concentrates on the special advantages of Latin as a medium of poetry. The Language of Virgil does more than teach us how to read the Aeneid in Latin: it shows why it is important to do so.
Part one covers the mechanics of sound and syntax in nine lessons, emphasizing words and forms actually encountered in lines 1-207. Part Two goes over those lines about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820421693
• ISBN13: 9780820421698
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"