Greek lyric, tragedy, and textual criticism collected papers
A collection of essays on Virgil's 'Aeneid' by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared t...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007, 2007
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Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | A collection of essays on Virgil's 'Aeneid' by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be debased or exhausted |
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Physical Description: | xii, 515 p. ill |
ISBN: | 9780191708183 |