Epic Successors of Virgil - A Study in the Dynamics of a Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Philip Hardie is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Oxford, UK. Klappentext This short book is a study of the epic tradition of the early Roman empire and specifically of the epic poems of Ovid! Lucan! Statius! Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus. It explores the use they made of Virgil's Aeneid! an epic interpreted not just as a monument to the heroic construction of the principate! but also as a problematical text that challenged succeeding epic poets to a reworking of the issues that it dramatised: the possibility of establishing a lasting age of peace! the relation between power and the sacred! the difficulties of distinguishing between good and its evil parodies! anxiety about imperial and poetic succession. The author draws on modern critical and theoretical approaches to argue for the vitality and interest of works which have all too often been relegated to a second division of literary history. Zusammenfassung This book is a critically sophisticated introduction to the epic tradition of the early Roman empire! specifically the epic poems of Ovid! Lucan! Statius! Valerius Flaccus! and Silius Italicus. It explores the use that they all make of the great Augustan epic of Virgil! the Aeneid. All Latin is translated. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Closure and continution; 2. Sacrifice and substitution; 3. Heaven and hell; 4. Succession: fathers, poets, princes; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philip Hardie, Philip (University of Cambridge) Hardie, Philip R. Hardie, Hardie Philip
• Mitarbeit: D. C. Feeney (Herausgeber), Stephen Hinds (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 17.12.1992
• EAN: 9780521425629
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42562-9
• Seiten: 144
• Serien: Roman Literature and Its Conte; Roman Literature and its Contexts
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form