Vergil's Aeneid: Augustan Epic and Political Context (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781905125333)

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)

Author: Hans-Peter Stahl
ISBN-10: 190512533X
ISBN-13: 9781905125333
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2010
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d