Servius and Commentary on Virgil

Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 5

By Peter K. Marshall

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Classics
Series: The Bernardo Lecture Series
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9781889818030, 54 pages, January 1997

Traces the importance and influence, in the wake of Tiberius Claudius Donatus, of Servius' Commentaries in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially on the magisri, the grammatici, and the mythographers.

Description

Servius and Commentary on Vergil is the fifth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures which have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods.