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The Ancient Lives of Virgil - Literary and Historical Studies (Hardcover)
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The Ancient Lives of Virgil - Literary and Historical Studies (Hardcover)
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The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and
sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial,
influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives,
for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical
reading of his verse. Yet some elements of the Lives are trusted,
and quietly adopted as canonical, most notably the dating of
Virgil's death. Some vignettes in the Lives have been cherished for
their image of an emotive poet, as when Virgil, by evoking in verse
the premature death of Augustus' nephew Marcellus, caused the young
man's bereaved mother to faint. Less romantic detail from the
Lives, as of Virgil's privileged material circumstances at the
heart of the Augustan regime, has been less regarded. The present
volume, from a distinguished international team, aims to revalue
the Ancient Lives of Virgil from a variety of angles and in a
variety of scholarly genres. The allegory within the Lives is here
studied for its own sake, and shown to be part of a developed
Graeco-Roman school of interpretation. The literary character of
the verse Life attributed to Phocas is respectfully analysed.
Certain political references within the best-known prose Life, the
Suetonian-Donatan', are shown to be apparently independent of
allegory, and to be worth prospecting for new information on the
poet's personal history. And ideas of Virgil received and developed
with brio in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are here traced
back to the Ancient Lives of the poet composed in Antiquity.
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