Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia

Death and Rebirth in Virgil's Arcadia is an introduction to the Eclogues, based on sound scholarship but also personally felt and addressed to a popular audience. It outlines clearly the literary and historical background of Virgil's early poems, discusses each eclogue in some detail, and offers a new and challenging interpretation of the collection as a whole. The ten eclogues are shown to be a young poet's attempt at self-understanding. Their symmetrical arrangement is a journey inward toward the central experience of death, and a journey back toward rebirth and the writing of larger and greater works.

About the author

Father M. Owen Lee is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, the author of many books on Virgil and Horace, including Fathers and Sons in Virgil's Aeneid published by SUNY Press, and an internationally known writer and broadcaster.

Product details

• Authors: M Owen Lee, M. Owen Lee
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.1989
• EAN: 9780791400166
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0016-6
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; SUNY series in Philosophy
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education