1 For a good essay on the movements in twentieth-century Virgil criticism see S. J. Harrison’s ‘Introduction’ to Harrison (1990). The appearance of an English translation of Richard Heinze’s Virgih epische Technik, nearly a hundred years after its first publication, has also provided the occasion to reflect on continuity and discontinuity in the practices of Virgilian criticism: see Hardie, P. R., ‘Virgil’s epic techniques: Heinze ninety years on’, CP 90 (1995), 267–76 Google Scholar.