PREFACE TO THE 3RD EDITION

In this edition too, mostly thanks to the work of others, I have corrected, or attempted to offer further confirmation for, many interpretations, but the book remains essentially the same.

LEIPZIG, JULY 1914

Since the appearance of the third edition, a great deal has been written about Virgil, including much about matters discussed or touched upon in this book. To respond to everything, agreeing or disagreeing, would have taken up a great deal of time which I believe better spent on other work. I am therefore allowing the third edition to be reprinted as it stands, and do so the more readily since recent discussions have not made me retract my previous beliefs with regard to the more important individual questions, such as the genuineness of the Helen episode in Book II, or the relative date of composition of Book III, or Virgil's philosophical views.

LEIPZIG, OCTOBER 1928
RICHARD HEINZE