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The Aeneid of VirgilThe Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by the Virgilian scholar R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. The poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with

and on the Roman Army

in the style of Section B of the new GCSE language paper

With stylistic brilliance

in preparation for establishing their causes

Her new introduction and notes represent the latest scholarship

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and for the often terrible story which he brilliantly tells

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this edition will support the new OCR specification for Classical Greek (first teaching 2016)

and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1

These three writers in their different ways manage to use Latin verse to convey a picture of the world which is both strange and familiar: Lucretius anticipates much of classical Physics

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