Glenn Most's abstract

I have been working off and on for a while on some poems in the Appendix Vergiliana (Culex, Ciris, Aetna) as reflections and interpretations of Virgil. The appendix was much worked on until the very end of the 19th century, when it seemed certain that the poems were not by Virgil. Then there was a last attempt by F. Skutsch to prove their Virgilian paternity, which failed; and thereafter they were quite ignored, except textually, for the most part. but the developments in intertextuality and recpetion criticism over the last decades would make them more interesting now than they were a generation ago.