Virgil''s Homeric Lens

Summary

This book examines the ways in which Virgil’s Aeneid uses Homer’s Odyssey both as a conceptual model for writing an intertextual epic and as a powerful refracting lens for the specific interpretation of the Iliad and its consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Edan Dekel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9781138802292
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80229-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Poetry, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Literature: history & criticism, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literature: history and criticism, Ancient, classical and medieval texts