Reading Vergils Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (V...
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Reading Vergils Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) (Volume 23)
Book Details
- Author
- Christine G. Perkell
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Essays
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780806131399
- ISBN-10
- 080613139X
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ISBN: 080613139X
Author: Perkell, Christine G.
Condition: New
Vergils Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poems fundamental meaning? Does it endorse or undermine values of empire and patriarchy? Is its world view comic or tragic? Many studies of the poem have focused primarily on selected books. The approach here is comprehensive.An introduction by editor Christine Perkell discusses the poems historical background, its reception from antiquity to the present, and its most important themes. The book-by-book readings that follow both explicate the text and offer a variety of interpretations.
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