This is a high quality text that one could easily use at the high school or university level. Some comments are intended to encourage discussion on themes, while others aim to assist the reader in translation. No grammatical errors were found - in English or Latin. This makes navigating the book a little difficult and cumbersome. Additionally, there are several footnotes on the commentaries - this could force the reader to divert attention from the Latin text twice.
The vocabulary, contextual, and grammatical insights are provided after the text in one long list. Some instructors prefer commentaries near or below the Latin. There is an easily-read Table of Contents. Suggested bibliographies for further reading are noted at the end of the book. This text is efficiently organized with the commentary following the text. This would be easy for a Classicist to do, but the casual Latin learner would have difficulties. It would be up to the instructor to break the readings up into segments. The 299 lines of the Latin text itself are fully provided with no breaks. Gildenhard offers the same high quality, academic approach to her comments, bibliographies, and interpretative essays. Translation, the goal of most Latin textbooks, is straightforward. Gildenhard's study questions are thought provoking and assist the student/reader in understanding the world of Aeneas and his time in Carthage. Gildenhard's study questions encourage readers in a class to discuss The Aeneid's relevancy in the modern world. The Latin is separate from the commentary, which makes updates easy to implement, should they ever be necessary. This book is extremely accurate in its Latin, clear and error-free.īook IV's themes are timeless and will always be relevant. The supporting study questions and bibliography offer the student/reader ways to set a context for Book IV in Virgil's epic as a whole. Gildenhard's choice of lines in Book IV are comprehensive.
Reviewed by Rosina Catalan, Adjunct Professor, Butler University on 12/17/19
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