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Cairns, Francis

VIRGIL'S AUGUSTAN EPIC Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

Cambridge University Press, 1989

85,00 €

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Anno di pubblicazione
1989
Autore
Cairns, Francis
Editori
Cambridge University Press
Soggetto
Epic Poetry Aeneid Vergil Virgil Poetry & Poets Latin Literature, Political Science
Descrizione
Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket
Descrizione
Hardcover ISBN 0521353580

Descrizione

Very Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. DJ has faint soiling to rear panel. ; 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