Introduction, selected Latin text from three works of Vergil (Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid). Grammatical commentary at the back of the book, complete glossary with macrons, selected bibliography. Appendices: meter, poetic devices, list of names, 2 maps.

Sarah Spence is Distinguished Research Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia and founding editor of Literary Imagination, the review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. She has published widely on ancient Roman and medieval topics; her books include: Rhetorics of Reason and Desire (Cornell, 1988); Texts and the Self in Twelfth-Century France (Cambridge 1996); Figuratively Speaking (Duckworth 2007). She has edited the Barnes and Noble Classics edition of Vergil's Aeneid, translated by Christopher Cranch, as well as several volumes of essays on Vergil, including Poets and Critics Read Vergil (Yale, 2001). Winner of the Albert Christ-Janer Creative Research Award, she has received numerous grants from the NEH, Mellon and American Philosophical Societies; she has served as judge for the Christian Gauss Phi Beta Kappa Book Award.