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Contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic in this collection of 14 papers. The examination of political references in the work is prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Vergil announcing the Aeneid on Geo 3. 1-48 (Egil Kraggerud) The Peopling of the Underworld (Anton Powell); Vergil as a Republican (Eckard Lefevre) The Sword-Belt of Pallas: Moral Symbolism and Political Ideology (Stephen Harrison) The Isolation of Turnus (Richard F. Thomas) The End and the Meaning (David West)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #6574363 in Books
- Published on: 1998-08-01
- Original language:
English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 324 pages