VIRGIL'S AUGUSTAN EPIC Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Year of publication

1989

Author

Cairns, Francis

Publishers

Cambridge University Press

Keyword

Epic Poetry Aeneid Vergil Virgil Poetry & Poets Latin Literature, Political Science

Cover description

Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover ISBN 0521353580

Description

Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has some edgewear with chipping and small tears to spine ends and corners. Sticker damage to bottom corner of front wrap. R. E. Fantham's notes in pen and pencil to rear DJ flap. ; 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. ; 296 pages