Monday, June 29, 2026

Virgil, Aeneid 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary

Ingo Gildenhard (author)
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In Dido’s encounter with Aeneas, the Aeneid explores abiding themes of love and loyalty, fate and fortune, the justice of the gods, imperial ambitions and its victims, as well as cross-cultural encounters and the geopolitics of colonial settlement. As Aeneas’ most significant other, Dido also assumes a crucial role in Virgil’s epic aetiology of Roman history and the Augustan principate. She owns the dark plot of Aeneid 4, in which divinely engineered erotic obsession culminates in divinely orchestrated sex that leads to personal and political tragedy: the cave encounter in Carthage entails a world-historical curse that operates in counterpoint to Jupiter’s triumphal destiny. Poetry that has fascinated readers since antiquity is here presented in an innovative, student-friendly edition, with study questions, vocabulary, commentary and visual material designed to facilitate engagement with Virgil’s text. The companion volume Teaching Dido: Critical Perspectives on Aeneid 4 (OBP 2026), also edited by Ingo Gildenhard, brings together interpretative essays and select works of scholarship to further enhance readers’ appreciation of the psychological depth, literary artistry, and thematic complexity of Virgil’s Dido.  

Book Series

Copyright

Ingo Gildenhard

Published On

2026-06-17

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-882-4
Hardback978-1-80511-883-1
PDF978-1-80511-884-8
HTML978-1-80511-886-2
EPUB978-1-80511-885-5

Language

  • English

Print Length

694 pages (XXVIII+694+nulla)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 48.04 x 234 mm(6.14" x 1.88" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 50.8 x 234 mm(6.14" x 2" x 9.21")

 

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