The Poetry of Pathos - Studies in Virgilian Epic (Hardcover)

This volume presents a collection of pieces from a celebrated world-class scholar and interpreter of Latin poetry, focusing on the interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid.. It forms the sequel to two widely influential earlier books on Virgil by the same author and translates and adds to a collection of papers published in Italian in 2002. Its central concern is the way in which Virgil reworks earlier poetry (especially that of Homer) at the most detailed level to produce very broad literary and emotional effects. Gian Biaggio Conte explores a central issue in Virgilian studies, that of how the Aeneid manages to create a new and effective mode of epic in a period when the genre appears to be debased or exhausted.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2007
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	Gian Biagio Conte
Editors:	S.J. Harrison
Dimensions:	223 x 145 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-928701-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	0-19-928701-5
Barcode:	9780199287017

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