VirgilCambridge University Press, 1998 M07 2 - 125 pages In this volume Philip Hardie provides an introduction to Virgil's three major works, a survey of changing critical approaches to the poems during the twentieth century, and a bibliographical guide for further study. A final section on style, language and metre offers a case-study in a close reading of a section of the Aeneid. The book communicates a sense of why reading Virgil matters and how the study of this author is always open to new ideas and fresh insights. No knowledge of Latin is presumed. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Georgics | 28 |
History and Politics Anthropomorphism The Bees | 35 |
Myth The Aristaeus Epyllion | 44 |
Interpretation and Meaning Philosophy and Religion | 50 |
Style Language Metre | 102 |
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