| Title | Virgil, <italic>Aeneid</italic> 4, with Study Questions, Vocabulary, and Commentary |
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| Contributor | Ingo Gildenhard (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0527 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0527 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ingo Gildenhard |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Publication place | Cambridge, UK |
| Published on | 2026-06-17 |
| Book set | This book is part of a 2-volume set. The other volume in the set is: |
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| ISBN | 978-1-80511-882-4 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-80511-883-1 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-80511-884-8 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-80511-886-2 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-80511-885-5 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | 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. |
| Long abstract | 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 (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0540) (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. |
| Print length | 694 pages (XXVIII+694+nulla) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 156 x 48.04 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.88" x 9.21" (Paperback) |
| 156 x 50.8 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 2" x 9.21" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 1297g | 45.74oz (Paperback) |
| 1484g | 52.35oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 85 illustrations |
| OCLC Number | 1596891943 |
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Ingo Gildenhard is a University Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition at Cambridge University. His research interests range from Latin literature (with a special emphasis on the archaic period, Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid) to Roman culture (especially the political culture of the Roman republic) to the Classical Tradition and literary and social theory. He has published several titles with OBP: Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas & Camilla) (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0158), 2018 (with John Henderson); Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0156), 2018; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511–733. Latin Text with Commentary (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0073), 2016 (with Andrew Zissos); Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27–49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0045), 2014 (with Louise Hodgson, et al.); Tacitus, Annals, 15.20–23, 33–45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0035), 2013 (with Mathew Owen); Virgil, Aeneid 4.1–299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretive Essays (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0023), 2012; Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53–86: Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0016), 2011.
