ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Collection of Ancient Vergilian Exegesis: A Thousand Years of Scholarship on the Aeneid
The Aeneid, Vergil’s masterpiece, published in 17 BC, two years after the death of the author, is universally recognised as the most important Roman epic poem. Since the very beginning of its circulation, in the 1st c. AD, it has drawn the attention of philologists and has been included in the school teaching of Latin grammar and rhetoric; in the following centuries an increasing number of commentaries on the Aeneid has been produced, engaging generations of scholars up to modern times. Therefore Vergil’s poem has not only played a key role in the history of poetry in Western literature and, more generally, in the reception of classical civilisation, but also in the history of the…
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