A Commentary on Book 4 of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Biographical note
Paul Murgatroyd, PhD London (1976), is Professor of Classics at McMaster University. He has published extensively on Greek and especially on Latin literature, and he is a published Latin poet in his own right.
Readership
All those interested in classical literature and poetry, and literary criticism, especially university lecturers and students, and university libraries
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"Der Kommentar Murgatroyds bietet eine umfassende, an philologischer Detailfreude kaum zu überbietende Aufarbeitung des Hintergrunds des kommentierten Textes und wird als Standardkommentar zu diesem Buch die erfreulich fortschreitende Kommentierung der Dichtung der „silbernen“ Latinität bereichern." Thomas Gärtner in BMCR, 8.8.2011
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