Word and Context in Latin Poetry

This volume of essays is intended to commemorate the eminent Latin scholar David West, best known for his work on Lucretius, Horace, Virgil and Shakespeare. The contributors \u2013 Francis Cairns, Ian Du Quesnay, Bruce Gibson, Alex Hardie, Stephen Harrison, John Moles and Tony Woodman \u2013 have aimed to produce close readings of classical texts, paying due attention to historical context and literary tradition in the manner adopted by David West himself. The authors covered are Empedocles, Antisthenes, Callimachus, Lutatius Catulus, Catullus, Horace (Epodes and Odes), Propertius, Virgil (Aeneid), Dio Chrysostom and Hildebert of Lavardin.

About the Author: A.J. Woodman is Gildersleeve Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has published widely on late-republican and Augustan Latin poetry and is the author of standard commentaries on Velleius Paterculus and Tacitus. With David West he co-edited three volumes of Latin literary criticism.