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Hans-Peter Stahl
Vergil’s Aeneid
Augustan Epic and Political Context

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This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil’s epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid’s central meaning. Contents include: Vergil announcing the Aeneid. On Geo. 3.1-48 (Egil Kraggerud); The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre); The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison); The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) and The End and the Meaning (David West)

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 324 ● ISBN 9781910589304 ● Verlag The Classical Press of Wales ● Erscheinungsjahr 2009 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 5507019 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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