Richard F. Thomas

Virgil and the Augustan Reception

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the last two millennia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9780521782883
• ISBN-10: 0521782880
• Artikelnr.: 35454152

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction: the critical landscape
1. Virgil and Augustus
2. Virgil and the poets: Horace, Ovid and Lucan
3. Other voices in Servius: schooldust of the ages
4. Dryden's Virgil and the politics of translation
5. Dido and her translators
6. Philology and textual cleansing
7. Virgil in a cold climate: fascist reception
8. Beyond the borders of Eboli: anti-fascist reception
9. Critical end games
Bibliography
Index.