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Livres anciens et modernes

Cairns, Francis

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

Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Année
1989
Auteur
Cairns, Francis
Éditeurs
Cambridge University Press
Thème
Epic Poetry Aeneid Vergil Virgil Poetry & Poets Latin Literature, Political Science
Description
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
Hardcover ISBN 0521353580

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Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. DJ has minor edgewear. ; 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