The Aeneid

Informationen zum Autor R. Deryck Williams was Professor of Latin in the University of Reading, UK, and the foremost Virgilian scholar of his generation.His editions of Aeneid III and V and Aeneid 1-VI, VII-XII are the most widely used by students of Virgil.He also wrote the first of the New Surveys in the Classics (1967). Klappentext The Aeneid of Virgil is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study by R. Deryck Williams, first published in 1987 and long since unavailable, sets the Aeneid in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. The poetic qualities of epic are analysed and illustrated by frequent quotations from the Latin, always with prose translations. The book will be appreciated by students and teachers of literature, and by knowledgeable non-academic readers alike. James Morwood 's new Foreword for this edition contains an appreciation of R.D. Williams work and provides a select bibliography of later writing. Zusammenfassung "The Aeneid of Virgil" is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study sets the "Aeneid" in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. It is of interest to students and teachers of literature, and non-academic readers.

Product details

• Authors: R Deryck Williams, R. D. Williams, R. Deryck Williams, R.D. Williams, Robert Deryck Williams
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2009
• EAN: 9781853997143
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-714-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks; BC Paperbacks Series; Bristol Classical Paperbacks; BCPaperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval