The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

Philip Hardie

ISBN 10: 052142562X / ISBN 13: 9780521425629

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Beschreibung

Like new softcover in printed wraps. Minor sun fading to the bottom of the spine. 8vo. (5 x 0.36 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a bibliography, index of passages cited and a general index. 144 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid, an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate, but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace, the relation between power and the sacred, the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies, anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history. He argues that these epics may in some ways be understood better through a forward rather than a backward glance, to the epics of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The book will be of interest to students of English epic and of comparative literature as well as to classicists. All Latin is translated.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Epic Successors of Virgil: A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052142562X
• ISBN-13: 9780521425629
• Bindung: Paperback
• Zustand: Like new
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Ancient History
  • Classical Literature
  • Greece
  • From the Library of Peter Green

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Inhaltsangabe

A critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.