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A Companion to the Study of Virgil

By Nicholas Horsfall

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1995
ISBN
9004095594, 9789004095595
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10913299 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne: Bibliotheca Classica Batava. Supplementum 151
Pages
326\338
Topic
Literature
Time added
2018-07-01 08:08:44
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Description

A Companion to the Study of Virgilis not yet another introduction to Virgil's poetry, nor is it the thinking man's version of the bibliographies in ANRW. The editor and three outside contributors offer a guide both to the key problems and to the most intelligent discussions. They do not offer 'solutions' to all the difficulties, but are not frightened to admit thatthiswe do not know, thatthatis a mess, and thattheremore work is to be done. The book is aimed at graduate students and university teachers. Many of the issues are difficult and artificial simplifications seem to offer no advantages. Apart from ample discussion of the poems and the main issues they raise, the book offers chapters on the life of Virgil (Horsfall), his style (Horsfall), his influence on later Latin epic (W.R. Barnes), on Latin life and culture (Horsfall), and on his MS tradition (Geymonat).

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