The Other Virgil: `Pessimistic' Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (Classical Presences)

by Craig Kallendorf (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $188.81

  The story of how the Aeneid has been approached by various postclassical authors - including Shakespeare and Milton - not as an endorsement of the ideals of their societies, but as a model for poems that probed and challenged dominant values, just as Virgil himself had done centuries before.