Left to right: Sylvia and her wounded deer; on the roof, Allecto; the battle between Latins and Trojans (Aeneid 7.500–539). A 19th-century lithographic reproduction of a Vaticanus miniature.
Featured on PDR in the essay Reading Like a Roman: Vergilius Vaticanus and the Puzzle of Ancient Book Culture
How did Virgil’s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts.
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Sylvia and Her Wounded Deer; on the Roof, Allecto; the Battle Between Latins and Trojans
Date
1835
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Virgilii pictvræ antiqvæ ex codicibvs vaticanis
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