ENGLISH

The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic

By Gian Biagio Conte

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0199287015, 9780199287017, 9780191536892
Open Library ID
OL22754137M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1139407 bytes)
Pages
240\259
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.

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