Aeneid 4

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Vergil, edited by Prof. James J. O'Hara, Randall T. Ganiban
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This edition is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume is edited by a scholar of Roman epic and designed with the needs of today’s college Latin students in mind. A two-volume edition of all books in the Aeneid will be derived from the series.

This is Book Four in the series.

Contributor Bio

James O’Hara is the George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil’s Aeneid (Princeton 1990), True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (Ann Arbor 1996), and Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Cambridge 2007).