Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination-poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious-displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British litera…
Metamorfosi
by Chiarini, Gioachino, Hardie, Philip, Tarrant, R. J., Ovidius Naso, Publius
Metamorfosi
by Chiarini, Gioachino, Hardie, Philip, Tarrant, Richard, Ovidius Naso, Publius
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, one of the greatest Latin poems, worked a powerful fascination on Virgil and Horace, and continued to be an important model for later poets in antiquity and after, including Milton. This innovative set of studies on the reception of Lucretius is organ…
'I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.' The resonant opening lines of Virgil's 'Aeneid' rank among the most famous and consistently recited verses to have been pas…
The Cambridge companion to Ovid
by Hardie, Philip, Ovid
fromCambridge companions to literature