The poetry of pathos studies in Virgilian epic
This title presents 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 to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be de...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2007, c2007
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This title presents 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 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: | 250 p. |
| ISBN: | 9780191713262 |