The sixth book of the Aeneid. With introduction and notes (commentary) by H.E. Butler. - Vergilius
KORTE INHOUD
?Professor Butler?s book will receive a cordial welcome. Both for the knowledge which it presents and not less for the stimulus it will give to the study of the ?Aeneid?. (?) It is a courageous effort to meet an urgent need, not professing to be a finished monument of scholarship. For however strongly Professor Butler?s readers may dissent from his views on particular passages, and whatever gaps they may find in his knowledge of Vergil, they will none the less accept his book with gratitude as containing the fruit of much fine study, and as an indispensable companion to everyone now teaching Latin in this country. (?) In more than one of his notes (?), Professor Butler recognises (?) Vergil?s constant and characteristic way of transcending controversy by avoiding the precision of prose statement. ?Vergil was a poet, not a formal theologian, and he used the vague and more awful word ?Manes? (not Genius). And if only Professor Butler had realised more fully the importance of this principle throughout, he would ...
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Oxford, 1920. VII,288p. Original green cloth. Cloth a bit mottled. Library mark to tail spine. Remains of library stickers to first end papers. Library stamps on first pages. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: VERGILIUS,] [Uitgever: Blackwell] [Jaar: 1920] [Titel: The sixth book of the Aeneid. With introduction and notes (commentary) by H.E. Butler.]
