The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition (Roman Literature...
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The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
Book Details
- Author
- Philip Hardie
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Classics
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780521425629
- ISBN-10
- 052142562X
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ISBN: 052142562X
Author: Hardie, Philip
Condition: New
This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire, specifically the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil, the Aeneid. Instead of being feeble imitations of the great classic (a common critical viewpoint), these poems are shown to be dynamic works that use the Virgilian model creatively to reflect the moral and political issues of their own day. All Latin is translated.
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