Latin Literature

[...]with this book as a companion, my feeling is that studying the technical aspects of Latin metre, far from being a turn-o, actually represents a way of engaging students in reading Latin poetry; it becomes a kind of erudite code-breaking exercise, where those in the know (just like Galens invited reader) can penetrate the deeper secrets of ancient poetry. [...]in case this should sound rather distant from the Muse, although there is plenty of detailed technical analysis here, it is all related to the poetry in such a way as to render it meaningful and useful even to those reading the poems in translation. [...]this section is rounded owith another brief chapter by Dickey oering some preliminary conclusions on the matter. [...]the title: this oers itself as a companion to Virgils Aeneid as well as to the poems later tradition. [...]edition.