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The Aeneid, by Vergil / editor, Robert J. Forman, St. John's University.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights The Aeneid, by Vergil
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virgil. Aeneis.
- Virgil.
- Aeneas (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Aeneas.
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Rome--In literature.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with a collection of essays and in-depth discussions of the author, Vergil. The essays discuss many different aspects of Vergil's work, including the historical awareness of Rome's future greatness, the significant psychological and ethical questions on fate and free-will, personal glory versus responsibility by those who lead, and the profound influence the Aeneid has had on Christian authors.
- Contents:
- On the Aeneid : biography and allegory / Robert J. Forman
- Biography of Vergil / Walter Petrovitz
- The Paris review perspective / Patrick Loughran for The Paris review
- Independent imitation : the Aeneid and Greek epic / Robert J. Forman
- History, culture, and the Aeneid / Bernard J. Cassidy
- Dante's Vergil in limbo / Fiorentina Russo
- Critical reception of the Aeneid / Kathleen Marks
- The poetic achievement of Virgil / Viktor Pöschl
- Virgil and the mystery of suffering / Francis A. Sullivan
- Sine fine : Vergil's masterplot / Robin N. Mitchell-Boyask
- The Dionysus in Aeneas / Clifford Weber
- The innocence of Italy in Vergil's Aeneid / Richard F. Moorton
- Vergil and the sibyl of Cumae / J.H. Waszink
- The golden bough for the student of Vergil / Mary Randall Stark
- Daedalus, Virgil, and the end of art / Michael C.J. Putnam
- Mathematical symmetry in Vergil's Aeneid / George E. Duckworth
- Dryden's Virgil / William Frost
- Resources
- Chronology of Vergil's life and times
- Works by Vergil
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613665843
- 9781280688904
- 1280688904
- 9781587658877
- 1587658879
- OCLC:
- 763184230
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