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Working "in the shadow of Eduard Norden" in the author´s own words, Nicholas Horsfall has written his own monumental commentary on Aeneid 6. This is Horsfall´s fifth large-scale commentary on the Aeneid, and as his earlier commentaries on books 7, 11, 3, and 2, this is not a commentary aimed at undergraduates. Horsfall is a commentators´ commentator writing with encyclopedic command of Virgilian scholarship for the most demanding reader. Volume One includes the introduction, text and translation, and bibliography,Volume Two includes the commentary, appendices, and indices.

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Praise for Nicholas Horsfall´s earlier Aeneid commentaries:

´The persistent wish to do full justice to the author´
Jan den Boeft, Mnem.55 (2002), 374

´the most important aspect of this commentary consists in the fact that H. approaches Virgil´s language almost as if discovering it for the first time´
Joseph Farrell, Vergilius 50 (2004), 183

´many acute observations and specimens of good judgement, sometimes also showing a sense of humour´
H.K.Riikonen, Arctos 40 (2006), 221

´marqueront profondement et durablement les études virgiliennes´
Jacques Poucet, Ant.Class.77 (2009), 443

´On a plaisir à saluer l´extrême richesse de ce commentaire´
J.Champeaux, REL 79 (2001) 271

´What Horsfall has given us is a genuinely amazing book, rich and exciting and we should all be grateful to him.´ (on Aen.2)
Andreola Rossi, NECJ 37 (2010), 142

´Extremely rich and erudite, but also exceptionally wide in the diversity of approaches to the text´
Amiel Vardi, Scr.Class.Isr. 21 (2002), 287

´Un grand livre´
J.Champeaux, REL 82 (2004), 300

´The tone of this work is refreshingly lively for such scholarship´
Alden Smith, NECJ 34 (2007), 93

´has instinctive flair for forgotten interpretations and neglected approaches´
A.Barchiesi, CW 102 (2008), 85

´un´ opera monumentale, destinata a durare´
A.La Penna, Maia 55 (2003), 415

´Who else could have written a work of such depth and breadth?´
S.J.Harrison, BMCR 6.3.2001

´A superb scholarly achievement´ (on Aen.11)
H.K.Riikonen, Arctos 39 (2005), 233

´nicht selten quasi definitive Qualität´,
P.Habermehl, Das Altertum 51 (2006), 66

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N.Horsfall, Dalnacroich.

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