Smith Virgil

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5154-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World

Virgil offers undergraduates, graduate students and generalreaders a comprehensive and carefully balanced introduction to theworks and literary reception of Virgil.

* Offers a fresh, comprehensive introduction to Virgil intranslation

* Explores the historical context in which Virgil wrote andlived

* Discusses the manuscript tradition of Virgil

* Traces the poet's literary influence on later authors andhis impact on the arts

* Includes suggestions for further readings

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, R. Alden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures viii
Preface ix
Note on Abbreviations xi
1 Generalizing about Virgil: Dialogue, Wisdom, Mission 1
2 Publius Vergilius Maro: A Preamble 26
3 Eclogue Dialogues 40
4 The Georgics: A Repast of Wisdom 75
5 The Aeneid: Mission and Telos 104
6 Virgilian Manuscripts: Codex to Critical Edition 150
7 The Virgilian Legacy 168
8 Further Reading 188
Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

R. Alden Smith is Professor of Classics at Baylor University. He is the author of Poetic Allusion and Poetic Embrace in Ovid and Virgil (1998) and The Primacy of Vision and Virgil's Aeneid (2005), as well as many articles on Latin and Greek poetry and Greek epigraphy.