Virgil's Epic Technique

  PREFACE TO THE 1ST EDITION
  PREFACE TO THE 2ND EDITION
  PREFACE TO THE 3RD EDITION
  TRANSLATORS' NOTE
  PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION

 collapse sectionPART I
 expand section1—  The Fall of Troy
 expand section2—  The Wanderings of Aeneas
 expand section3—  Dido
 expand section4—  The Games
 expand section5—  Aeneas in Latium

 collapse sectionPART II
 expand section1—  The Creative Method
 expand section2—  Invention
 expand section3—  Presentation
 collapse section4—  Composition
 1—  Unity:  Beginning and Ending
 2—  The Whole and the Parts
 3—  Catalogues
 4—  Sequences of Scenes
 5—  Unity of Person
 6—  Unity of Each Book
 7—  Unity of the Whole Work
 8—  Organization of the Whole Work
 9—  Simplification
 10—  Variation
 11—  Enrichment
 expand section5—  Virgil's Aims

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionINDEX OF NAMES AND topICS

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