Latin 602, “Vergil’s Aeneid”

February 1

Topic:  Book 6: Interpretive Contexts

Readings:

• R. D. Williams, "The Sixth Book of the Aeneid," Greece & Rome n.s. 11 (1964) 48-63.
• R. J. Clark, "Vergil, Aeneid, 6,40ff. And the Cumaean Sibyl's Cave," Latomus 36 (1977) 482-495.

R. J. Clark, "Misenus and the Cumaean Landfall: Originality in Vergil's Use of Topography and Tradition," Transactions of the American Philological Association 107 (1977) 63-71.