Review of LEE M. FRATANTUONO - R. ALDEN SMITH, Virgil, Aeneid 4: Text, Translation, Commentary. Mnemosyne Supplements, 462. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022, xi+982 pp. $280.00, ISBN 978-90-04-52143-8.

This commentary on Vergil’s Aeneid 4 for the Mnemosyne Supplements series is the fruit of the third collaboration between Fratantuono (who is primarily responsible for the commentary) and Smith (introduction, text, and translation). As the authors point out in the preface (XI), they are planning to produce a commentary on Aeneid 9. Their first two commentaries for the same series were devoted to Books 5 (2015) and 8 (2018) and, while these books reach the length of roughly 800 pages each, the present volume goes generously beyond it. In a sense, this is to be expected given the wealth of scholarship devoted to Aeneid 4, admittedly one of the most popular books of Vergil’s epos.