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A Reading from the Aeneid

Texts

• The Aeneid, Eclogues, and Georgics Latin texts from the George Mason University Classics Department
• The Aeneid Translated by John Dryden. From the Internet Classics Archive; includes a discussion bulletin board.
• The Aeneid Trans. John Dryden, from ILTClassics, Columbia University.
• The Aeneid Trans. John Dryden, presented by Joel Jaeggli, University of Oregon
• The Aeneid In Latin and English, with commentaries. An Online Translation Project by David Herman.
• The Aeneid In Latin; Online Critical Edition with Commentaries. In progress, from The Vergil Project.
• The Georgics English translation with commentary. From The Internet Classics Archive; includes a discussion bulletin board.
• The Georgics English translation; from Virginia Tech.

Readings

• Lines 998-1008 of Aeneid XII Read by Professor Richard F. Thomas, Harvard University. A very large .wav file.
• The Latin text of the above reading

Virgil Web Pages

• The Vergil Project from The University of Pennsylvania
• Vergil's Home Page, from the University of Pennsylvania
• virgil.org A valuable collection of links and resources by David Wilson-Okamura; formerly Hesperia. Includes a map of Virgil's Underworld.

Background and Essays

General

• Vergil Brief background and links to works, by ILTWeb, Columbia University
• An Introduction to Vergil, Part I by Thomas Harris, Emeritus, Middlebury College
• Aelius Donatus' Life of Virgil A fourth-century A.D. biography, translated and annotated by David Wilson-Okamura
• Vergil: The Secret Life A speculative biography based on virgilian texts and ancient biographies, by Thomas Harris

The Aeneid

• The Aeneid A summary of the twelve books. Part of An Introduction to Latin Epic by Laura Gorney
• The Style and Structure of the Aeneid by Laura Gorney
• Critical Approaches to the Aeneid: References and Bibliography by Laura Gorney
• Vergil's Aeneid A background essay by Roger Dunkle, Brooklyn College
• The Greatest Roman An appreciation of Vergil's view of history, by Wes Callihan
• An Esthetic Commentary to Aeneid IV (Part II of An Introduction to Vergil, by Thomas Harris)
• Virgil's Aeneid by Thomas Silverman, Reed College. Includes background, modern views, resources, and bibliography
• Vergil's Dido: A multimedia path by Mark Morford, Daniel Holmes, and John Ashenfelter, University of Virginia. An exemplary series of background text, images, and maps that trace the depiction of Dido in the Aeneid and in art
• Aeneas in the Underworld: A Multimedia Path Forty-eight images of the Greek and Roman underworlds from ancient and modern art, with commentary by Mark Morford and Daniel Holmes, University of Virginia
• A lock and a promise: Myth and Allusion in Aeneas' Farewell to Dido in Aeneid 6 by R. A. Smith

Bibliographies

• A Brief Selected Vergil Bibliography by Daniel Hooley, U. of Missouri
• Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance A Rough Bibliography by David Wilson-Okamura

Other Internet Resources

Listservs

• Mantovano "An Online, Ongoing Discussion of Virgil and His Influence"

Chat and Bulletin Boards

• Virgil Lecture Hall A bulletin board from Western Canon University
• Virgil Live Recitation Chat A chat room from Western Canon University

Last update: 5-12-98