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Thomas, Richard F.

VIRGIL AND THE AUGUSTAN RECEPTION Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Year of publication
2001
Author
Thomas, Richard F.
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Keyword
Vergil Virgil Latin Literature Poetry & Poets Classical Greek &, Roman
Cover description
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0521782880

Description

Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). Light bump to lower edge of front board. DJ has minor edgewear with 1 small tear. ; This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet. ; 346 pages