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Not as Virgil has it: Rewriting the Aeneid in 18th Century Ireland

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I would like to thank the anonymous readers for this journal for their valuable suggestions and comments on this piece. Enormous thanks are also due to Susanna Braund and Amy Richlin, both of whom read this piece in draft, and to Gideon Nisbet and Diana Spencer who offered much advice when it was still in its initial stages. Finally, thanks are due to audiences at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. All errors that remain are entirely the author’s responsibility.

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McElduff, S. Not as Virgil has it: Rewriting the Aeneid in 18th Century Ireland. Int class trad 18, 226–245 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-011-0249-0

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