Virgil's Augustan Epic - Softcover

Cairns, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521034965 ISBN 13: 9780521034968

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying the ancient ideals of kingship.

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An examination of the main characters in the Aeneid - Aeneas himself, Dido and Turnus - in the light of Virgil's contemporary Augustan political and literary ideology. The characters and the plot and incident of the epic are seen as embodying and exemplifying first the ancient ideals of kingship and concord, and second the Roman self-identification as at once 'Italian' and 'Trojan', and finally as reflecting the literary self-evaluation of the Augustan age. In the literary area, Virgil's relations with contemporary Roman elegy, with early Greek lyric and, most important, with Homer, are studied and reevaluated. Virgilian scholars and students of Augustan literature in general will find this book of interest to them.

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Book by Cairns Francis

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521034965
• ISBN 13: 9780521034968
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296