The Cambridge companion to Virgil / edited by Charles Martindale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martindale, Charles, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virgil--Criticism and interpretation.

Virgil.

Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.

Aeneas.

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Agriculture in literature.

Country life in literature.

Didactic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Didactic poetry, Latin.

Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Pastoral poetry, Latin.

Rome--In literature.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by seventeen scholars from Britain, the USA, Ireland and Italy which offer a range of different perspectives both traditional and innovative on Virgil's works, and a renewed sense of why Virgil matters today. The Companion is divided into four main sections, focussing on reception, genre, context, and form. This ground-breaking book not only provides a wealth of material for an informed reading but also offers sophisticated insights which point to the shape of Virgilian scholarship and criticism to come.

Contents:

Introduction : "the classic of all Europe" / Charles Martindale

Virgil in English translation / Colin Burrow

Modern receptions and their interpretative implications / Duncan F. Kennedy

Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity / R.J. Tarrant

The Virgil commentary of Servius / Don Fowler

Virgils, from Dante to Milton / Colin Burrow

Virgil in art / M.J.H. Liversidge

Green politics : the Eclogues / Charles Martindale

Virgilian didaxis : value and meaning in the Georgics / William Batstone

Virgilian epic / Duncan F. Kennedy

Closure : the Book of Virgil / Elena Theodorakopoulos

Poetry and power : Virgil's poetry in contemporary context / R.J. Tarrant

Rome and its traditions / James E.G. Zetzel

Virgil and the cosmos : religious and philosophical ideas / Susanna Morton Braund

The Virgilian intertext / Joseph Farrell

Virgil's style / James J. O'Hara

Virgilian narrative : story-telling / Don Fowler

Virgilian narrative : ecphrasis / Alessandro Barchiesi

Approaching characterisation in Virgil / Andrew Laird

Sons and lovers : sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry / Ellen Oliensis

Virgil and tragedy / Philip Hardie

Envoi : the death of Virgil / Fiona Cox.

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ISBN:

9781139000079 (ebook)

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