Vergil´s aeneid
augustan epic and political context
- ISBN: 9781905125333
- Editorial: The Classical Press of Wales
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: Oxford. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 324
- Idiomas: Inglés
Edited with an introduction by Hans-Peter Stahl. 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).
Edited with an introduction by Hans-Peter Stahl