Virgil's Epic Technique [Paperback]

The great German philologist Richard Heinze'sVirgils Epische Technikwas originally published in German in 1903. It was the outstanding book on Virgil in its day, and it remains a very valuable study of the techniques Virgil used to compose the Aeneid. This English translation by Hazel Harvey, David Harvey and Fred Robertson was published in 1994, with an introduction by Antonie Wlosok.

Richard Heinze, the great Virgilian scholar, first published his Virgils Epische Technik in 1903. His pioneering work remains a basic text for students and scholars today, providing a study of the techniques by which Virgil composed his epic on Aeneas.