Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the
landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the
literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the
modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of
his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's
poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by
scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when
Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that
Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian,
who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable
failings in order to defend. Awarded in 2011 the prize of the
Vergilian Society for 'the book that makes the greatest
contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Virgil'.
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