Virgil

Broschiertes Buch

A Commentary on Virgil Eclogues

Beschreibung

Surprisingly, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem, as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole.

Autor

Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that The Aeneid was unfinished and expressed a desire to have it burned, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil's other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also considered masterpieces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780198150350
• ISBN-10: 0198150350
• Artikelnr.: 22452201