Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xl) and indexes. - Preface; Introduction; Ad lectorem; Bibliography; Text and Translation; Commentary; Appendix 1. The Helen-episode (567-88); Appendix 2. Stesichorus, the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina and Aeneid 2; Latin index; English index; Index of names. - Offers introduction, text and translation, commentary and indices to 'Aeneid 2'. This book discusses the controversial Helen-episode (spurious), matters of linguistic and textual interpretation, metre, prosody, grammar, lexicon and idiom, as well as Virgil's sources and the literary tradition in which he writes. - Einheitssacht. des kommentierten Werkes: Aeneis. - Text lat. und engl., Kommentar engl.