Eclogues

Informationen zum Autor Publius Vergilius Maro, known to English-speakers as Virgil (70 B.C.-19 B.C.), is best remembered for his masterpiece, The Aeneid, in which he represented the Emperor Augustus as a descendant of the half-divine Aeneas, a refugee from the fall of Troy and legendary founder of Rome. Virgil claimed on his deathbed that The Aeneid was unfinished and a failure, but it became the national epic of ancient Rome, a monument of Latin literature, and has been regarded as one of the great classics of Western literature ever since. Virgil's other works include the Eclogues and the Georgics, also regarded as masterpieces. Zusammenfassung In this edition Robert Coleman describes the earlier pastoral tradition! sets Virgil's poems in historical perspective and evaluates the poet's distinctive contribution to the genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; P. Vergili Maronis Bucolica; Commentary; Bibliographical note; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Virgil
• Assisted by: Robert Coleman (Editor), P. E. Easterling (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.1977
• EAN: 9780521291071
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29107-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama