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Virgil and HARDIE, P., Virgil: Aeneid Book IX. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 268p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Aeneid IX marks the beginning of the full-scale narrative of the war between the Trojans and Turnus' Italians which occupies the last quarter of the epic. Two days during which Turnus launches a siege-assault on the Trojan camp while Aeneas is absent are separated by the nocturnal interlude of the ill-fated expedition of the romantic young Trojans Nisus and Euryalus. In this, the first major single-volume commentary in English on the book, Dr Hardie explores Virgil's transformation of Homeric models of battle narrative in the service of contemporary Roman ideology. The volume includes a detailed linguistic and thematic commentary on the text, and an introduction consisting of a series of interpretative essays on the book. (Publisher's information). € 32.76 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780521359528