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Aeneas and the Roman Hero
Dr R. Deryck Williams
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Description for Aeneas and the Roman Hero
Paperback. Num Pages: 74 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 5. Weight in Grams: 106.
In Aeneas and the Roman Hero, the author explains and illustrates the ideals of the newly-created Roman empire under Augustus as they are reflected in Virgil’s Aeneid. National hopes were high; Rome had emerged from the bloodshed of internecine civil wars; her renewed civilisation was set to rule the known world. Virgil’s Aeneid explores and symbolises those aspirations in epic narrative through the myth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. The poem remains one of the most significant literary landmarks of our own civilisation; in this book, its story and its poetic magnificence are outlined for the student coming ... Read more
In Aeneas and the Roman Hero, the author explains and illustrates the ideals of the newly-created Roman empire under Augustus as they are reflected in Virgil’s Aeneid. National hopes were high; Rome had emerged from the bloodshed of internecine civil wars; her renewed civilisation was set to rule the known world. Virgil’s Aeneid explores and symbolises those aspirations in epic narrative through the myth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. The poem remains one of the most significant literary landmarks of our own civilisation; in this book, its story and its poetic magnificence are outlined for the student coming ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853995897
SKU
V9781853995897
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Ref
99-2
About Dr R. Deryck Williams
R. Deryck Williams was Professor of Latin in the University of Reading, UK, and the foremost Virgilian scholar of his generation. His editions of Aeneid III and V and Aeneid 1-VI, VII-XII are the most widely used by students of Virgil. He also wrote the first of the New Surveys in the Classics (1967).
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