The Cambridge companion to Virgil [electronic resource] / edited by Charles Martindale.

Contributor Martindale, Charles, editor.

ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Description1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

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Note: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.

Note: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.

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