This set collects eighty-four articles on Virgil published in the last hundred years, many of which remain the starting-points for modern scholarship and criticism. The set gathers together articles from a wide range of journals in English, as well as from the German and Italian traditions of Virgil studies, some in new translations. The selections are arranged under the following headings: general articles, including a discussion of the influence of Lucretius' poetry on the Virgilian corpus; the Eclogues, containing critical interpretations of all ten of Virgil's bucolic poems, an...
This set collects eighty-four articles on Virgil published in the last hundred years, many of which remain the starting-points for modern scholarship ...
A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture, is long overdue. Chapters by leading authorities discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting new critical approaches.
A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature...
A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture, is long overdue. Chapters by leading authorities discuss the backgrounds and contexts for Ovid, the individual works, and his influence on later literature and art. Coverage of essential information is combined with exciting new critical approaches.
A companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity, and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature...
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."
The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the proper functioning of their own expanding empire, between orbis...
