Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 208 pages)
ISBN:
9781350114371
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9781350114364
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9781350114357
Series Statement:
Understanding classics
Content:
"The works of Virgil (70-19 BCE) define the 'golden age' of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the incomparable Aeneid) shaped the canonical writings of other authors, from his younger contemporary Ovid through the medieval writers Dante and Petrarch to the early modern poets Spenser and Milton and well beyond. Virgil, as Alison Keith shows, has never gone out of critical or popular fashion. This wide-ranging introduction appraises a figure of central importance in the history of Western music, art and literature. Offering close readings of the Bucolics, Georgics and Aeneid, Keith places Virgil and his poetry in historical context before tracing their impact at key moments in the culture of the West. Emphasis is placed on Virgil's reception of the classical literary and philosophical traditions, and on how his poetry has attracted modern interest from writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot and Ursula K. Le Guin"--
Content:
1. Life and Times -- 2. Bucolica -- 3. Georgica -- 4. Aeneis -- 5. Reception -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848859203
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848859197
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Keith, Alison M., 1962 - Virgil London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 ISBN 9781848859203
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848859197
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Vergilius Maro, Publius v70-v19
DOI:
10.5040/9781350114371
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