A companion to the study of VirgilOffers a guide both to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. The authors do not offer solutions to all the difficulties, but are not frightened to admit that this we do not know, that that is a mess, and that there more work is to be done. Apart from ample discussions of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil (N. M. Horsfall), his style (N. M. Horsfall), his influence on late Latin epic (W. R. Barnes), on Latin life and culture (N. M. Horsfall), and his MS tradition (M. Geymonat)