Virgil: Eclogues - Virgil: Eclogues

Zusatztext This is a full and scholarly commentary of the old-fashioned kind (in the best sense of the word!)! in fact "surprisingly! the first full scale scholarly eommentary in English on the Eclogues"....This is certainly an important and necessary book for the teacher and university student.. Informationen zum Autor Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us 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 expressed a desire to have it burned, 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 considered masterpieces. Klappentext Surprisingly! this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the Eclogues to appear in this century. These ten short pastorals are among the best known poems in Latin literature. Clausen's commentary provides a comprehensive guide to both the poems and the considerable scholarship surrounding them. There are short introductions to each poem! as well as a general introduction to the Eclogues as a whole. Zusammenfassung A sophisticated blend of "Arcadian" idyll and contemporary Roman history, Virgil's ten short pastoral poems have intrigued scholars and poets alike. This is a full-scale commentary on the "Eclogues", edited by a world expert on Latin literature.

Product details

• Authors: Virgil
• Assisted by: Wendell Clausen (Editor), Wendell Vernon Clausen (Editor), Clausen Wendell (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.1995
• EAN: 9780198150350
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815035-0
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form