Description: Introduction, text and translation, detailed commentary and indices to Aeneid 2 are here offered on a scale not previously attempted and in keeping with the author's previous Virgil commentaries (Aeneid 3, 7 and 11); the volume is aimed primarily at scholars, rather than undergraduates.
Review Quotes: "... awesome learning, massively detailed coverage, strong opinions and lively debate. [...] All in all, it is totally impossible to do justice to H.'s labours in a short review. One can only say that, as with all his earlier work on the Aeneid, this book must be on the desk of all Vergilians and indeed of all those who work on Latin poetry." - Damien Nelis, in: Museum Helveticum, 2011
On Nicholas Horsfall's other three commentaries:
"Les trois ouvrages...marqueront profondément et durablement les études virgiliennes" - J. Poucet, in: Antiquité Classique, 2009
On Nicholas Horsfall's commentaries on Aeneid 2 and 3:
"Dieses neue [...] Duett beschließt Horsfalls große Tetralogie definitiver Vergilkommentare. [...] die vier vorgelegten Bände gehören zu den Monumenten moderner Philologiegeschichte und sind - wie La Cerda, Heyne (undWagner) oder Norden - aus der Exegese des größten aller römischen Dichter schlechterdings nicht mehr wegzudenken." - Peter Habermehl, in: Das Altertum 1/2012