The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic

The Poetry of Pathos: Studies in Virgilian Epic

by S.J.Harrison (Editor), Gian Biagio Conte (Author)

Synopsis

A collection of essays on Virgil's Aeneid by a celebrated scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry. Gian Biaggio Conte focuses on the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appeared to be debased or exhausted.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 24 May 2007

ISBN 10: 0199287015
ISBN 13: 9780199287017