Virgil: Aeneid X: Latin Texts

Introduction
1. Historical background
2. Virgil's life and writing
3. The Aeneid
4. Books 1-4: the Carthaginian episode
5. Virgil's predecessors
6. Rome and Carthage
7. Dido and Aeneas
8. The gods
9. Similes in Book 4
10. Humour
11. Summary of books 5-12
12. Dido and Aeneas after Virgil
13. Metre general
14. Virgil's use of metre and language
Some reading
Notes
Aeneid IV: The Latin text
Notes on the text
Index I: Literary, grammatical and metrical terms
Index II: Names in the text
Index III: Other names
Vocabulary
Abbreviations

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