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Virgil and the Augustan Reception

By Richard F. Thomas

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0521782880, 9780521782883, 9780511016509
LCC
PA6825 .T518 2001
Open Library ID
OL6783343M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1245866 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
344\346
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also naive American translation. It scrutinizes nineteenth-century philology's rewriting or excision of troubling readings, and covers readings by both supporters and opponents of fascism and National Socialism. Finally it examines how successive ages have made the Aeneid conform to their upbeat expectations of this poet.

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