"The first synthesis and analysis of the translation history of Roman poet Virgil's works into European languages. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary investigation that contributes to western intellectual history and challenges classicists and other literary scholars to reassess the features of Virgil's poems to which the translators respond"--

Susanna Morton Braund is Professor Emeritus of Latin Poetry and its Reception at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on Latin poetry and is the co-editor of Virgil in Translation (with Zara Torlone, 2018).

Introduction: First attempts and first principles; 1. Translation, nationalism and transnationalism; 2. The translator's identity; 3. The economics of translating Virgil; 4. Competition, retranslation and travesty; 5. Poetic careers of Virgil translators; 6. Partial translations of Virgil; 7. Supplements and paratextual material; 8. Fidelity of form: Metre matters; 9. Fidelity of concepts and register; 10. Equivalences and identifications.