A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and Its Tradition

Herausgeber: Farrell, Joseph, Putnam, Michael C. J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and itsTradition presents a collection of original interpretive essaysthat represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergilscholarship.

Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship andnew insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil s textualhistory
Features contributions by an international team of the mostdistinguished scholars
Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergilscholarship

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1225g
• ISBN-13: 9781405175777
• ISBN-10: 140517577X
• Artikelnr.: 28163000

Autorenporträt

Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books and papers on Latin literature, including Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991), Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times (2001), and the forthcoming Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent . Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Brown University. His works include Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics (2004), Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (2006), and The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (with Jan Ziolkowski, 2008)

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments.
Note on References. Introduction. Part I: The Aeneid in Antiquity. Part II:
Medieval and Renaissance Receptions. Part III: The Aeneid in Music and the
Visual Arts. Part IV: The American Aeneid. Part V: Modern Reactions to the
Aeneid. Bibliography. Index.