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Numanus Remulus: Ethnography And Propaganda In Aeneid 9.598ff. -- Dido In The Light Of History -- Turnus Ad Portas -- Virgil's Roman Chronography: A Reconsideration -- The Collegium Poetarum -- Virgil, History, And The Roman Tradition -- Some Problems In The Aeneas-legend -- Doctus Sermones Utriusque Linguae? -- Virgil, Varro's Imagines, And The Forum Of Augustus -- From History To Legend: M. Manlius And The Geese -- Some Problems Of Titulature In Roman Literary History -- Virgil And The Conquest Of Chaos -- The Structure And Purpose Of Virgil's Parade Of Heroes -- The Caudine Forks: Topography And Illusion -- Illusion And Reality In Latin Topographical Writing -- The Aeneas-legend And The Aeneid -- Non Uiribus Aequis: Some Problems In Virgil's Battle-scenes -- Camilla, Or The Limits Of Invention -- The Uses Of Literacy And The Cena Trimalchionis -- Chloreus' Trousers -- Barbara Tegmina Crurum -- Aeneas The Colonist -- Virgil And The Illusory Footnote -- Externi Duces -- The Aeneid And The Social Structures Of Primitive Italy -- Virgil And The Poetry Of Explanations -- Empty Shelves On The Palatine -- Cicero And Poetry: The Place Of Prejudice In Literary History -- The Prehistory Of Latin Poetry: Some Problems Of Method -- Rome Without Spectacles -- The Cultural Horizons Of The Plebs Romana -- The Geography Of The Georgics -- The Unity Of Roman Italy: Some Anomalies -- The Unity Of Roman Italy: Anomalies In Context -- The Legionary As His Own Historian -- The Moretum Decomposed -- Fraud As Scholarship: The Helen Episode And The Appendix Vergiliana -- Excudent Alii -- Virgil And The Jews -- Poets And Poetry In Virgil's Underworld -- Exempla In Virgil's Underworld -- The Poetics Of Toponymy. Nicholas Horsfall. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.