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Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context

By Hans-Peter Stahl

Book information

Publisher
ISD LLC
Year
2009
ISBN
1910589306, 9781910589304
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8271441 bytes)
Pages
324\356
Time added
2021-05-01 21:38:51

Description

This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison); The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West)

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