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Poetry Underpinning Power: Vergil's Aeneid: The Epic for Emperor Augustus
Hans-Peter Stahl
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Hardcover. Stahl's new monograph is the most thorough study so far to question modern Virgilian criticism on philological grounds. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 449.
In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard school' and similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus. Much of Virgil's oeuvre consists prima facie of eulogy of the ruler, and of emphatic prediction of his enduring success: this is explained by numerous modern critics as generic convention, or as studied ambiguity, or as irony.This paradoxical position, which runs against ancient - as well as much modern - interpretation of the ... Read more
In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard school' and similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus. Much of Virgil's oeuvre consists prima facie of eulogy of the ruler, and of emphatic prediction of his enduring success: this is explained by numerous modern critics as generic convention, or as studied ambiguity, or as irony.This paradoxical position, which runs against ancient - as well as much modern - interpretation of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910589045
SKU
V9781910589045
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About Hans-Peter Stahl
Hans-Peter Stahl is one of the most distinguished contemporary writers on classical literature. An authority on both Greece and Rome, his particular achievement is to reveal the internal logic of writers, imaginative and factual alike, in the political sphere. Stahl has written Propertius: 'Love' and 'War': Individual and State under Augustus (University of California Press, 1985) and Thucydides, Man's Place ... Read more
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