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The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies
Hardie Philip
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Description for The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hardie, Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin Literature Philip (University of Cambridge); Powell, Dr Anton (University of Wales Institute of Classics UK). BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 422.
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of Virgil's death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse the premature death of Augustus' nephew Marcellus, caused the young man's bereaved mother to ... Read more
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted, and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of Virgil's death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse the premature death of Augustus' nephew Marcellus, caused the young man's bereaved mother to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910589618
SKU
V9781910589618
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99-50
About Hardie Philip
Philip Hardie, Professor of Latin at the University of Cambridge, is an international authority on Classical Latin poetry and its reception. His most recent monograph is The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid ( I.B.Tauris, 2014). Anton Powell is a specialist on Sparta, Thucydides, and the literature of the Roman revolution. His monograph Virgil the Partisan (CPW, ... Read more
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