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Vergil's eclogues.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fowler, Barbara Hughes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Country life in literature.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Rome--In literature.
- Virgil. Bucolica.
- Local Subjects:
- Country life in literature.
- Pastoral poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Rome--In literature.
- Virgil. Bucolica.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (89 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Best remembered for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid, the poet Vergil was celebrated in his time both for the perfection of his art and for the centrality of his ideas to Roman culture. The Eclogues, his earliest confirmed work, were composed in part out of political considerations: when the Roman authorities threatened to seize his family's land, Vergil's appeal in the form of Eclogue IX won a stay. Eclogue I appears to be a thank-you for that favor. Barbara Hughes Fowler provides scholars and students with a new American verse translation of Vergil's Eclogu
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Vergil's Eclogues; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Eclogue I; Eclogue II; Eclogue III; Eclogue IV; Eclogue V; Eclogue VI; Eclogue VII; Eclogue VIII; Eclogue IX; Eclogue X; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9798890867711
- 9780807861547
- 0807861545
- OCLC:
- 823382239
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