Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium

ISBN-13: 9780198146919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 424 str.

Philip R. Hardie;¬Abar

Opis

The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis and urbs. Philip Hardie's new work explores Virgil's poetic and mythic transformation of this imperialist ideology with reference to such traditions as the poet/cosmologer, the use of allegory to extract natural-philosophical truths from mythology and poetry, poetic hyperbole, and the "universal expression."

Recenzje

'The object of this important, learned, scrupulously argued book is to create a major shift in the contemporary reader's sense of the Aeneid ... this must be one of the handful of books on the Aeneid ... which are genuinely capable of altering our reading of the text.' Classical Review

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Introduction; Poetry and cosmology in antiquity; Cosmology and history in Virgil; Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: I; Gigantomachy in the Aeneid: II; Lucretius and the Aeneid; Hyperbole; Universal expressions in the Aeneid; The shield of Aeneas: The cosmic icon; Epilogue