This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Co…
Vergil's poem, a determinant text in the cultural history of the West, is treated as a focus for some of the most intense scholarly controversies of our own time - including the ideological contribution of the artist to autocracy and war.
Vergil's poem, a determinant text in the cultural history of the West, is treated as a focus for some of the most intense scholarly controversies of our own time - including the ideological contribution of the artist to autocracy and war.
A collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. -- Amazon.com.
A commentary on Aeneid VIII
by Eden, P. T., Virgil
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
A commentary on Virgil: Aeneid VIII
by Eden, P. T.
fromMnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava
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