This volume contains a collection of papers by an international team of scholars covering the subject of literary character in Roman poetry. Authors discussed are Horace, Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Lucan and an epigrammatist of the 6th centrury A.D., Maximianus Etruscus and problems treated vary from theoretical through poetical to historical questions.

The aim of the book is to present a literary genre – the commentary as a main form of scientific literature in Antiquity and Middle Ages. The collectanea of studies of specialists in Asian and European literatures and historians of philosophy show the multicultural viewpoint of this problem.