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Virgil's Aeneid : A Reader's Guide

by: Ross, D. O.

Price: 35,00 EURO

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Category: Latin Texts / Roman Philology
Code: 2143
ISBN-13: 9781405159739 / 978-1-4051-5973-9
ISBN-10: 1405159731 / 1-4051-5973-1
Publisher: Blackwell
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Paper
Pages: 154
Book Condition: New

Virgil's Aeneid : a reader's guide

Author:David O. Ross

This guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived." "The book discusses in detail important illustrative passages in their poetic, historical, and intellectual contexts. David O. Ross includes short introductions to key topics such as Roman religion and the Roman concept of "character," as well as an appendix that clarifies how to read and hear the poem's Latin hexameter." "This guide is an indispensable companion for anyone reading Virgil's Aeneid for the first time, in Latin or translation, and for readers seeking a deeper understanding of this classic epic poem.

ix, 154 pages ; 23 cm


Contents:
Virgil's hero
The victims
Fate and the gods
Virgil's Troy
Rome, the rerum imago
Virgil, his life and works
Appendix : the Latin hexameter

 

 
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