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Description for Virgil
Paperback. Series: Understanding Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 134 x 25. .
The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone ... Read more
The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Series
Understanding Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848859203
SKU
V9781848859203
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Ref
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About Alison Keith
Alison Keith is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her books include The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 2 (1992), Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic (2000) and Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure (2008).
Reviews for Virgil
Very good and worth recommending both to students and other readers, who are only just starting their adventure with Virgil.
Electrum
An excellent resource for students ... This book will be a valuable addition to introductory bibliographies on Latin literature and a useful tool for non-Classicists who are interested in studying Virgil for the first time.
The ... Read more
Electrum
An excellent resource for students ... This book will be a valuable addition to introductory bibliographies on Latin literature and a useful tool for non-Classicists who are interested in studying Virgil for the first time.
The ... Read more