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Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Anton Powell
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Description for Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Hardcover. Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. Num Pages: 310 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; D. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 694.
This book locates the work of Virgil in the politics of his day. It examimes closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's poems. It rewrites, mainly from the Greek historians Appian and Dio, the political culture of a period frequently neglected or misunderstood, the decades following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. And it argues that a guiding purpose in all three of Virgil's works, Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, was to address and to paliate the unpopularity, the weakness, of Caesar's heir, Octavian. Combining the literary analysis of Latin poetry with the criticism of Greek and ... Read more
This book locates the work of Virgil in the politics of his day. It examimes closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's poems. It rewrites, mainly from the Greek historians Appian and Dio, the political culture of a period frequently neglected or misunderstood, the decades following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. And it argues that a guiding purpose in all three of Virgil's works, Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid, was to address and to paliate the unpopularity, the weakness, of Caesar's heir, Octavian. Combining the literary analysis of Latin poetry with the criticism of Greek and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Swansea, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905125210
SKU
V9781905125210
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About Anton Powell
Anton Powell is Director of the University of Wales Institute of Classics. He is the author of Athens and Sparta (1988, 2001); as founder and (with Stephen Hodkinson) as director of the International Sparta Seminar he has edited five volumes of its proceedings. He is also (with Kathryn Welch) editor of Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter (1998) and of Sextus ... Read more
Reviews for Virgil the Partisan: A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Toward the end of this book, Powell (Univ. of Wales) sums up his approach as proceeding from ideals expressed to realities suffered.' A striking example of this is the chapter titled 'The Theft of Pietas,' in which the author argues that Virgil, unable to credit Octavian with pietas, creates the image of a pius ancestor, Aeneas, the incarnation of this ... Read more