Vergil Links

This is a web page designed years ago, updated now and then. There are some dead links, but still a lot of good stuff.

General:

· Vergil’s Home Page

Links, info, etc., from Joe Farrell of Penn. “Resources for Students, Teachers, and Readers of Vergil”

· The Vergil Project

From Joe Farrell

· Syllabus for Latin 228 and 409, “Vergil’s Aeneid”

Partly-online course on V. taught by Farrell in 1995

· The Vergilian Society and the Journal Vergilius

· Vergilius Bibliography Index

“Vergilius” includes a bibliography of new work on V. each year; the bibliographies for a few years are online: 1986-1987 1987-1988 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993

· Mantovano

An Online, Ongoing Discussion of Virgil and His Influence (you can subscribe). Also has lots of good links.

· Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Renaissance: An Online Bibliography

From “Mantovano” (also lists basic Vergil paperback books)

· Some Dictionaries of Literary Theory and Related Areas

By Lowell Edmunds of Rutgers.

· Tools of the Trade for the Study of Roman Literature

By Lowell Edmunds and Shirley Werner.

· Links for Augustan Age Authors(Erlangen)

· Some links on rhetorical figures:

Bibliography (not just Vergil): see also other sites:

· Look it up!

Great search tool at Kentucky for all kinds of material in Classics, including the next two bibliographic tools

· TOCS-IN Search

Great search tool for recent articles in Classics

· Gnomon: Titelsuche

Classics bibliographical tool; type your terms in the Alle Felder (all fields) box and click Suche Starten (start search). Then it may help to know that Rez. = “a review”, S. = p. (page). )

· Diotima Vergil Bibliography (esp. Dido, Creusa, Lavinia)

· A Bibliographic Guide to Vergil’s Aeneid

Ongoing project of Prof. Shirley Werner

· SOME AENEID BIBLIOGRAPHY (onsite; about 4 pages long; basic, slightly random)

· GEO SOME GEORGICS BIBLIOGRAPHY (onsite; about 8 pages long; slightly random)

· BRIEF ECLOGUES BIBLIOGRAPHY (onsite; about 2 pages long; slightly random)

· A Hellenistic Bibliography by Martijn Cuypers, University of Leiden, with a Vergil section

Texts and translations online (of Vergil and related texts):

· Perseus Project Text of Vergil in English & Latin w/ Notes

Great resource! Latin text of Vergil’s Aeneid, translations by both Dryden and a modern scholar, line-by-line commentary of both Servius (Latin, late antiquity) and Conington (19th Cent.), and info. on each Latin form in Vergil

· Perseus Text of the Eclogues in Latin with notes and English translation

· GEO Persus Text of the Georgics in Latin with notes and English translation

· GEO Vergil: Aeneid and Georgics Latin Text at Rutgers

· GEO The Georgics in English online at MIT’s Internet Classics Archive

· The Eclogues in English online at MIT’s Internet Classics Archive

· Theocritus Idyll 11 (Cyclops) in English at Diotima.com

· Aeneid Book 2 in Englishwith notes from Andrew Wilson incomplete, from 1419

· Aeneid Book 6 in English and Latin with vocab and notes from Andrew Wilson

· Maphaeus Vegius, “Libri XII Aeneidos Supplementum” — virgil.org from 1428, with a link to an English translation

· Maffeo Vegio, “Supplement to the Twelfth Book of the Aeneid,” as translated by Thomas Twyne, 1584 — virgil.org

· Pier Candido Decembrio, “The Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid” incomplete, from 1419

· Ruaeus’ Prose Summary of Virgil’s Aeneid MDCCCXXXI

· Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?-1547) Certain Books of Virgil’s {AE}neis: Book II (excerpts)

· Aelius Donatus, “Life of Virgil” tr. into English by David Wilson-Okamura

· Latin text of Donatus, “Life of Virgil”

· DONATI COMMENTARII VERGILIANI: COMMENTARII IN ECLOGAS

· Dryden’s Translation The Aeneid, Book 1(with links to other books)

· The Aeneid of Virgil- Dryden Translation

· Text of Servius’ commentary on the Aeneid at Perseus

· Commentary on Vergil’s Aeneid and Homer (at Penn, incomplete)

· Forum Romanum’s great list of Latin authors available online

· Silver Muse: annotated texts etc. of passages from imperial Latin authors

· THE ARGONAUTICA of Apollonius Rhodius in English

· M. TERENTIVS VARRO RERUM RUSTICARUM DE AGRI CULTURA in Latin

· Columella, De Re Rustica in Latin

· Links to images of the text of Juan Luis de la Cerda’s commentary on the Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid are available on the home page of Joe Farrell

Georgics:

GEO Georgics outline from website of Professor Edmund Burke of Coe College
GEO Study questions on the Georgics, from website of Edmund Burke of Coe College
GEO Electronic Text and the Problem of Genre: Georgic Experiments (18th
century lit. and e-texts)
GEO BMCR Hooley review of Jenkyns, Vergil’s Experience
GEO The Virgilian Intertext, Joseph Farrell (from Martindale?)
GEO THE PLANTERS OF THE ENGLISH LANDSCAPE GARDEN: Botany, Trees, and the
Georgics Douglas D. Chambers (book blurb)
GEO CATO ON FARMING De agri cultura A Critical English Translation by Andrew Dalby
(much of this book is available online, including:
GEO Online Bibliography: Major Roman works on farming (aka Cato Bibliography; gives dates of sources)

Images/maps/art:

· Ancient World Mapping Center at UNC

· Three-figure relief with Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes (on Perseus, from Louvre)

· Pic of the papyrus containing the Prologue to Callimachus’ Aetia (click on pic to enlarge)

· Callimachus, “Prologue” to the “Aetia” Tr. Stanley Lombardo and Diane Raynor

· Andean pan-pipe . Radu Simeon on the pan-pipe!

· GEO text of Georgics in Latin archeologhia.com

· scroll down on this page for woodcuts for the Georgics

· GEO Eurydice statue

· GEO pic and brief bio of Joseph Addison d.1719, English essayist and translator of

· Virgil’s Georgics

· GEO Index of Images From Vergil MSS Vat. lat. 3225 and 3867

· (scroll down for Georgics)

· GEO Medieval Manuscripts as Primary Sources, Professor Christopher Baswell

· (scroll down for MODULE C: Marginalia and Rewriting Virgil’s Georgics,

· with images of manuscripts)

· GEO Virgil, Georgics and Bucolics (The Palatine Virgil). In Latin, Fifth or

· sixth century (scroll down for a pic; click to enlarge)

· GEO Images of 1543 bound edition of Vergil printed in Venice

· GEO Pic and info, linden tree (used for yoke in Geo. 1, which is quoted)

· GEO 1952 edition of Dryden’s Georgics translation, with a pic

· map of site of rome (Aeneid 8)

· map of Aeneas’ travels

· Mark Morford’s Online Images of Fall or Troy, Dido, Underworld

From the University of Virginia (link is gone?)

· Geography of The Aeneid of Vergil, A Web Reading Lesson by Edward Krug

· Barbara McManus’ “images used as springboards for discussion of specific sections of the Aeneid”

· Cave of the Sibyl also here and here

· VulcanandVenuspic

· CyclopesatForgePic

· Vulcanpic

· Index of Images From Vergil MSS Vat. lat. 3225 and 3867

· HistoryWiz: The Aeneid Image Gallery

· bolchazy.com: Gallery: Vergil’s Aeneid 1,2,4,6,10, and 12

· The Aeneid (bronze relief) by Harry Bates, A.R.A (1885)

· Virgil reading the ‘Aeneid’ to Augustus and Octavia

· Investigating Bellini’s Feast of the Gods

· Illustrationen der Berliner Eneit-Handschrift(list)

· Illustrationen der Berliner Eneit-Handschrift(oneofthem)

· Index of Images From Vergil MSS Vat. lat. 3225 and 3867 link is dead?

· SBAAN : Tomba di Virgilio link is dead?

· Map of ancient Rome

· VROMA images of Caesar, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar, Caesar on a coin, the Rubicon, Cleopatra?, Pompey. Info about these images here and here is VROMA’s policy for image use. VROMA‘s Augustus of Prima Porta, several views of a bust of Augustus (scroll down to 43ff), McManus’ images (see here for info) including Agrippa, Antony and Octavia on a coin, Octavian on a coin, Augustus with toga and scroll, cameo of Augustus and then another pic of it; another cameo; Augustus with the “civic crown; Augustus as pontifex, Augustus sacrificing, busts of Augustus and family members; Antony and Cleopatra on a coin (more pics still here including Livia, Caesar, Vergil etc.; see also here).

· Doing a search for images at Perseus.tufts.edu with the keyword “Augustus” will get you links to photographs of a number of coins (34 of them) and sculptures and buildings related to Augustus. Here is their policy for image use.

Some pages with help on meter:

Some simple help on the hexameter: basic rules (this is an Aeneid handout) and practical rules for scansion from me, and the “Silver Muse” introduction to “epic versification” (i.e. meter)(note: Silver Muse links seem messed up) For a good page on the hexameter, with lots of metrical terms defined and illustrated, see the Skidmore page called Hexametrica. For some basic info see also here (hendecasyllabics, Sapphiocs, and elegiac couplet) and here (hexameter and elegiac couplet).

Latin poetry read aloud:

· Aeneid 1.195-207

· Harvard .. Recital Page (with several passages from the Aeneid) link seems to be dead after dept website redesigned

· Aeneid – Book IV, read by Wilfried Stroh You can even download the mp3 and play it on your ipod or at parties

· VivaVoce — Roman Poetry Recited ~ Catullus, Horace, Vergil and more

· Aeneid, 1.1-49 read by Robert P. Sonkowsky, University of Minnesota .

· Ovid Metamorphoses Book 1 read aloud
And more Latin from those people, with lots of links too:
http://web.comhem.se/alatius/latin/

· a few passages read aloud at Princeton, including the start of the Aeneid.

Notes/outlines/study questions (mostly for undergraduates):

Course websites:

· Vergil Class, Fall 1999

· Syllabus for Latin 228 and 409, “Vergil’s Aeneid”

· www.missouriVergilbibliogrpahy-brief

· Latin 312K, Vergil’s Aeneid/David Cramer

· courseonepicF98.html

· Virgil brief bibliography

· Epic & Empire: course Bibliography

· Classics at Carthage: Augustus

· TrojanWarCourseHome Page

· LAT213 Wesleyan-Vergil

· Classics at Carthage: Vergil

· cl420.html (good stuff at a Roman epic course at Middlebury C.)

· Joe Farrell’s page on Aeneas’ visit to Cumae, including images, map and info

Age of Augustus:

· Augustan Age links

· Roman Emperors – DIR–De Imperatoribus Romanis Roman History Roman Roman Empire Imperator Basileus De Imperatoribus Romanis

· The Julius Caesar Site

· Augustus: Testimonia, Univ. of Saskatchewan

· Augustus, University of Saskatchewan

· Augustan Bibliography

· David Potter’s Augustus lecture notes and links no longer online ????

· The Julius Caesar Site

· Augustus: Testimonia, Univ. of Saskatchewan a few passages on Augustus from Seneca, Suetonius, Tacitus

· Augustan Studies page of Eric Kondratieff with timeline

· Augustus, University of Saskatchewan nice 10-15 page summary of events of the years 44-31

· Course pages or handouts on Augustus: C. Mackay, Alberta (cf. also p. 2 and 3)

· Forum Romanum

· Text of Dio Cassius in English Book 45 is here

· Augustus links on “Mantovano”: links to Porter on the Rise of Augustus; Silverman on the transition from Republic to Empire, with an introduction to the primary sources as well as current historiography; Ong on the formation of the second triumvirate, Antony vs. Octavian, the constitutional position of Augustus, his social reforms, and the second half of his principate

· Primary sources on “Mantovano”: primary sources in English and sometimes Latin, such as Augustus’s Res Gestae, Plutarch’s Life of Marc Antony, a pic of Augustus’ Mausoleum, the Latin text of a letter from Augustus to his son Gaius, a biography of Augustus by Nicolaus of Damascus, Suetonius’ Life of Augustus, Tacitus’ comments on Augustus and the end of the Republic, English translations of Augustan legislation on marriage, procreation, and adultery.

· The Background page for Augustus on “Mantovano” has links to Mayes on the Roman Kalendar, Fox’s genealogical guide to the Julio-Claudians, Morford’s page of photos and site plans, with commentary, of the Augustan mausoleum complex, the Ara Pacis, the Prima Porta statue of Augustus, and the Gemma Augustea, Paola’s Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors (portrait coins and sculpture); Renauld’s pics of Portrait busts of Augustus and Agrippa; labeled details from the Ara Pacis Augustæ, Andrus-Walck’s pics of and and info on the Prima Porta statue of Augustus, the Ara Pacis Augustæ, and the Theater of Marcellus.

· Julius Caesar on the “Mantovano” home page: Primary sources, background and images, modern essays and historical fiction on Octavian’s adoptive father.

· John Paul Adams’ Augustus page with info and essays: dates in the life of Augustus, a page on the personal, religious, magisterial, and political responsibilities of the princeps, brief descriptions of “Building Projects in Rome in Augustus’ Time,” “Some Augustan Legislation,” “Augustus’ Illnesses,” “Conspiracies against Augustus”

· Garrett G. Fagan has an Introductory essay on Augustus, with bibliography and guide to ancient sources. From De imperatoribus romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. The same source also has an essay on Augustus by Nina C. Coppolino

· Rome: Republic to Empire Pages of Barbara F. McManus of The College of New Rochelle; links to her pages on Roman Slavery and the Rebellion of Spartacus, Julius Caesar, Antony, Octavian, and Cleopatra: (the end of the Roman Republic; our course!); Augustus and Tiberius (the beginnings of the Roman Empire), Caligula, Roman Names, Roman Republican Government, Roman Social Classes and Political Factions of the Late Republic

Fiction About Ancient Rome and esp. the Augustan Age:

· The Fictional Rome Home Page developed by Louis M. Seigal, Leslie Phillips & Fred Mench, and housed at supported by the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Searchable Database; Authors & Reviews; Essays; Glossary of Latin words used in novels; Information on Historical Figures; Reference Works on Historical Fiction; Timeline; Discussion; Web Rings; Links.

· John Williams, Augustus : Amazon blurb

· Texts of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are available online

· Alan Massie, Augustus (1987) Amazon.com blurb

· Stephen Saylor has written several mystery novels set in Cicero’s Rome. Here’s the “Roman Fiction” page. Saylor’s 1999 novel Rubicon is set in 49 BCE at the start of the war between Caesar and Pompey, and the next one, Last Seen in Massilia, is set later in 49 (Amazon blurb). (And there have been one or two more recently)

· Hermann Broch’s 1945 “The Death of Virgil”; see the “Roman Fiction” page for this bold novel, which was begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, and which presents stream of consciousness remembrances from Vergil’s last 18 hours of life

· I, Claudius, and Claudius the God, the novels by Robert Graves, the first made into a great Masterpiece Theater series on PBS, available in VHS and DVD . Lots of info here ; here’s the “Roman Fiction” page for Graves.

· Novels about Ovid I: Christoph Ransmayr, The Last World: A Novel with an Ovidian Repertory (1990); see the “Roman Fiction” page , which calls it a “metaphysical thriller” in which “a young admirer goes in search of the exiled poet … in the remote Black Sea town of Toni … [and] finds in the rust-corroded town an ominous scene suffused with and dominated by Ovidian mythology, a transformed place where the ancient world meets the 20th century.

· Novels about Ovid II: David Malouf, An Imaginary Life; “Roman fiction” page Also Ovid in exile.
Novels about Ovid III: The Love-Artist, by Jane Alison (Farrar, Straus &Giroux 2001). Again Ovid in exile, this time inspired by a woman named Xenia to write his “Medea”.

· Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March

· Xena, Antony, and Cleopatra episode-guide with link to script of “Xena” episode; slightly different version of events (X. disguised as Cleo., woos then kills MA). Other episodes that seem to (I haven’t seen them) have Caesar or other Romans: Rome, Ides