Reviews

  • Piero Boitani

    "Avventure di Virgilio." Il Sole 24 Ore: Domenica 290 (19 October 2008): 36.

  • Charles Fantazzi

    Choice Reviews (August 2008).

  • Jasper Griffin

    "Virgil Lives!" The New York Review of Books 55, no. 11 (26 June 2008): 24–25.

  • Stephen Guy-Bray

    Speculum 84 (2009): 509–510.

  • Prudence J. Jones

    Vergilius 54 (2008): 213–214.

  • Aires Nascimento

    Euphrosyne 37 (2009): 500–502.

  • Nathaniel Peters

    First Things, no. 195 (August/September 2009): 58–59.

  • Wolfgang Polleichtner

    Bryn Mawr Classical Review (7 July 2008).

  • George Steiner

    "None but himself can match him," Times Literary Supplement (26 September 2008): 26.

Readers' Comments

Two thousand years after the death of its author, Virgil's poetry occupies a central place in the canon of Western literature. The number of responses to Virgil, however, has discouraged anyone from attempting to collect them, sift out the most important, and organize the selection in an intelligible manner. This is the job Putnam and Ziolkowski have undertaken, and they have succeeded admirably.

Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University

This wonderful project brings together a truly generous sampling of texts and translations that document the tradition of Virgil reception. There are no comparable collections of sources, much less sources with translations into English.

Ralph J. Hexter, President, Hampshire College