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Virgil's Augustan Epic

Author : Francis Cairns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521353588

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Virgil's Augustan Epic by Francis Cairns Pdf

An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them.

Vergil's Aeneid

Author : Hans-Peter Stahl
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066088207

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Vergil's Aeneid by Hans-Peter Stahl Pdf

This text contains contributions by international exponents of Vergil's work. It aims to allow both the specialist and the general reader to penetrate and to test many of the leading, and competing, modes of interpretation applied to the Aeneid. These range from Vergil viewed as endorsing Rome's imperial warfare, to Vergil lending his voice to the victims of Roman imperialism; from the denial of the literary critic that any application of political context is feasible, to the discovery of political implications embedded in the dramatic perspectives, characters and locales of the epic. Vergil's poem, a determinant text in the cultural history of the West, is treated by this volume as a focus for intense scholarly controversies: the ideological contribution of the artist to autocracy and war, and the very possibility of verifying political intention in a literary artifact.

The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil

Author : W. Y. Sellar
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547565000

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The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar Pdf

"The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil" by W. Y. Sellar. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486113975

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Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

Virgil's Iliad

Author : K. W. Gransden,Virgil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0521287561

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Virgil's Iliad by K. W. Gransden,Virgil Pdf

In the course of re-establishing the value and importance of Books VII-XII of Virgil's Aeneid, this study also explores in some detail his use of Homer's Iliad.

Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid

Author : Elena Giusti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108416801

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Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid by Elena Giusti Pdf

Investigates the representation of the Carthaginian enemy and the revisionist history of the Punic Wars in Virgil's Aeneid.

The Epic Successors of Virgil

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 052141542X

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The Epic Successors of Virgil by Philip Hardie Pdf

This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid. Instead of being feeble imitations of the great classic (a common critical viewpoint), these poems are shown to be dynamic works that use the Virgilian model creatively to reflect the moral and political issues of their own day. All Latin is translated.

Poetry Underpinning Power

Author : Hans-Peter Stahl
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781910589052

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Poetry Underpinning Power by Hans-Peter Stahl Pdf

In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard School' and similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus. Much of Virgil's oeuvre consists prima facie of eulogy of the ruler, and of emphatic prediction of his enduring success: this is explained by numerous modern critics as generic convention, or as studied ambiguity, or as irony. This paradoxical position, which runs against ancient-as well as much modern-interpretation of the poet, continues to create widespread unease. Stahl's new monograph is the most thorough study so far to question modern Virgilian criticism on philological grounds. He based himself on the internal logic and rhetoric of the Aeneid, and considers also political, historical, archaeological and philosophical subjects addressed by the poem. He finds that the poet has so presented the morality of his central figure, Augustus' supposed ancestor Aeneas, and of those who (eventually) clash with him, Turnus and Dido, as to make it certain that Roman readers and hearers of the poem were meant to conclude in Aeneas' favour. Virgil's intention emerges from Stahl's thorough, ingenious and original argumentation as decisively pro-Augustan. Stahl's work, in short, will not only enliven debate on current critical hypotheses but for many will enduringly affect their credibility.

Virgil: The Aeneid

Author : K. W. Gransden,S. J. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0521539803

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Virgil: The Aeneid by K. W. Gransden,S. J. Harrison Pdf

The Aeneid is a landmark of literary narrative and poetic sensibility. This 2004 guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of Virgil's epic, and discusses the poet's use of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the most celebrated episodes in the poem, including the tragedy of Dido and Aeneas' visit to the underworld. The volume examines Virgil's psychological and philosophical insights, and explains the poem's status as the central classic of European culture. The final chapter considers the Aeneid's influence on later writers including Dante and the Romantics. The guide to further reading has been updated and will prove to be an invaluable resource to students coming to The Aeneid for the first time.

The Aeneid

Author : Virgil
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307819017

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The Aeneid by Virgil Pdf

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

Author : Richard F. Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139433518

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Virgil and the Augustan Reception by Richard F. Thomas Pdf

This book is an examination of the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia. The author focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity alternately a collaborative oppositional reading and an attempt to suppress such reading, studies creative translation (particularly Dryden's), which reasserts the 'Augustan' Virgil, and examines naive translation which can be truer to the spirit of Virgil. Scrutiny of 'textual cleansing', philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, leads to readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism to support or subvert the latter-day Augustus. The book ends with a diachronic examination of the ways successive ages have tried to make the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.

Virgil's Epic Technique

Author : Richard Heinze
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106011829642

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Virgil's Epic Technique by Richard Heinze Pdf

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Madness Unchained

Author : Lee Fratantuono
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739157411

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Madness Unchained by Lee Fratantuono Pdf

Madness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil's Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil's epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil's point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome's national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader's interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence their impact on the audience, this book moves in the order Virgil intended, and also gives rather fuller exposition to the second half of the poem, Virgil's self-proclaimed 'greater work' (maius opus).

Virgil: Aeneid I

Author : Virgil
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781853997167

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Virgil: Aeneid I by Virgil Pdf

In Book I of the "Aeneid", Aeneas is shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, near where the Phoenician queen Dido is building a city that will become Carthage. Aeneas and Dido meet. Their doomed love is set against Aeneas' destiny as founding father of Rome. Edited by Keith Maclennan, this volume makes Virgil's work more accessible to today's students, by setting it in its literary and historical context and taking account of the most recent scholarship and critical approaches to Virgil. The edition includes a full introduction which covers Virgil's life and writings, his literary predecessors, a summary of the epic poem's plot, an exploration of Rome, Carthage and Dido's role, explanation of the metre, and some notes on translating and reading the poem. As well as the introduction, the volume contains the original Latin text, in-depth annotation to explain language and content, a glossary and a comprehensive vocabulary list.

The Aeneid of Virgil

Author : Virgil,Allen Mandelbaum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520045505

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The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil,Allen Mandelbaum Pdf

This deluxe edition of Virgil’s epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains a new preface by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.