Virgil''s Double Cross - Design and Meaning in the Aeneid

Zusatztext " Virgil's Double Cross is a compact! elegant! and avowedly dark reading of the Aeneid as a poem." ---Christopher Whitton! Greece and Rome Informationen zum Autor David Quint is Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His many books include Epic and Empire and Inside "Paradise Lost" (both Princeton). Klappentext The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empi Zusammenfassung The message of Virgil's Aeneid once seemed straightforward enough: the epic poem returned to Aeneas and the mythical beginnings of Rome in order to celebrate the city's present world power and to praise its new master, Augustus Caesar. Things changed when late twentieth-century readers saw the ancient poem expressing their own misgivings about empi

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Quint, Quint David
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780691179377
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17937-7
• Seiten: 248
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets